psilo-, psil- +

A prairie plant.

Someone who believes that Jesus was not divine but merely a man: Psilanthropists generally deny both the virgin birth of Jesus and his deity or holiness.

The belief that Jesus Christ was not divine but merely a man, although divinely inspired.

Dwelling in prairie or savannah habitats.

Having the skin naked or without scales; such as, an amphibian of the Psiloderma.

In Greek antiquity, light-armed troops equipped with weapons or missiles, but wearing no defensive armor.

Mere noise or empty talk.

1. Any mixture of black manganese oxide minerals.
2. Smooth hydrous manganese oxide compositions.
3. A common ore of manganese, a hydrated oxide, occurring in smooth black amorphous masses, or in botryoidal or stalactitic shape.
4. Etymology: Greek psilos, "bare" plus melanos, "black".

In ornithology, a reference to a bird that hatches naked or without down (with no soft fluffy feathers).

In biology, regarding a life form that thrives in prairie or savannah habitats: What searching the internet, June came across some psilophilous plants, like some species of aster and the blazing star, that preferred very warm weather and grassland environments.

1. Any plant of the savanna (psilos, "without trees").
2. Any of a division (Psilophyta) of simple vascular plants with upright branches that appeared in the early Paleozoic period and were the first of the land plants.

A reference to psilophytes; psilophytic flora.

1. Stripping bare of hair.
2. A term for hair that is falling off; depilation.

1. A superficial or narrow pretender to philosophy; a sham philosopher.
2. Someone who professes to have knowledge or education which he/she, in fact, does not have.

1. Shallow philosophy.
2. Limited or superficial knowledge.