spec-, spic-, spect-, spectat-, spectro- -spectr, -spectful, -spection, -spective
(Latin: to see, seeing; to look at, looking at; sight, to appear, appearing; to behold, to examine, examining)
2. To have doubts about; distrust.
3. To think (a person) guilty without proof; such as, one who is suspected of committing a crime.
2. The condition of being suspected, especially of wrongdoing.
3. Uncertainty, doubt.
4. A minute amount; a trace; such as, a suspicion of garlic.
2. Tending to suspect; distrustful.
3. Exhibiting suspicion; such as, a suspicious glance.
"The polyploidal offspring occupy the same environment as the parent plants; therefore, sympatry; but they are reproductively isolated while the speciation is taking place via populations with overlapping geographic ranges."
2. A spectroscope arranged to be attached to a telescope for observation of distant objects; such as, the sun or stars.
A spectrum is a charted band of wavelengths of electromagnetic vibrations obtained by refraction (bending of waves) and diffraction (wave train that passes an obstacle of secondary waves that are set up which interfere with the primary wave and give rise to bands of constructive and destructive interference).
Motto of German Emperor Maximilian I (1493-1519).
Inauspicious is the preferred spelling.
Inauspiciously is the preferred spelling.
Cross references of word families that are related directly, or indirectly, to: "appear, visible, visual, manifest, show, see, reveal, look": blep-; delo-; demonstra-; opt-; -orama; pare-; phanero-; phant-; pheno-; scopo-; vela-, veal-; video-, visuo-.