stego-, steg-, stegano- +

In invertebrate zoology, overlaid with two series of spines: In the TV documentary Penny watched, some acanthostegous bryozoans were characterized with having ovicell or ooecium needle-like protrusions.

Obstruction of a nasal passage.

Analyzing and deciphering steganographic or secret writing.

A cryptogram or coded message.

A secret message that is hidden in a bigger one in such a way that other people are not aware of its presence or contents; for example, a message might be hidden somewhere in an image by changing the least significant bits to be the message bits.

A reference to or a description of a secret message that is hidden in an image, an audio, or a video file.

It is used instead of an encryption (secret code) and it takes advantage of unused bits within a computer file structure or secret bits which are mostly undetectable if altered.

A steganographic message can go secretly to its destination, unlike encrypted messages, which although they may be undecipherable without the decryption key, they can be identified as being encrypted or some kind of a coded secret message.

Someone who practices the art of writing in cipher.

1. Defined in dictionaries as the art of writing in ciphers or characters that are not intelligible, except to the persons who correspond with each other; cryptography (secret writing).
2. The art and science of communicating in a way that hides the existence of the communication: Steganography attempts to hide messages inside other harmless messages in such a way that third parties cannot even detect the existence of the concealed message or secrets.
3. The science of communicating in a way that hides the existence of the actual communication.

The practice of steganography involves hiding information in a wider bandwidth carrier of secrets.

Steganography covers the techniques used in digital watermarking schemes as an example from modern digital techniques, one could put the text of a message in the blank spaces in an image file.

4. In cryptography, steganography refers to not only obfuscating (encrypting) data or secrets, but hiding the fact that it even exists.
5. The art and science of hiding information by embedding secret messages within other, seemingly harmless messages: Shrinking the secret text of steganography until it is the size of a dot and then putting it in an unsuspected place; such as, the dot on top of a letter "i" in some innocuous or harmless letter.
6. Etymology: from Greek steganos, "covered, concealed, or protected" + graphein, "to write".

More details about steganography.

For other "secret" words, see: crypto-.

A bird belonging to the group Steganopodes, which includes the pelicans, cormorants, frigate-birds, gannets, tropic-birds, and snake birds.

1. Having feet completely webbed; totipalmate [toh TIP uhl mayt"] (Latin: totus, all; palma, palm of hand. Having feet completely webbed).
2. Belonging to the group Steganopodes.

1. An order of vertebrates that include totipalmate swimming birds with totally webbed feet.
2. An alternative name for Pelacaniformes (an order of birds comprising a large number of fish-eating types including cormorants, gannets, pelicans, frigate-birds, etc. Their feet are webbed and have four toes).

1. The closing of a passage; astringent or constipating.
2. A stoppage of any of the secretions or excretions.
3. A constriction or stenosis.

Having the capsule operculate (a dry dehiscent fruit composed of more than one carpel that splits partly open at maturity supplied with a lid or covering).

Any of the various extinct elephant-like mammals of the genus Stegodon and related genera, of the Pliocene to the Pleistocene. The creature was named with steg + -odon, "tooth, teeth", because of the distinctive ridges on its molars.

A subgenus of the genus Aedes of mosquitoes; inclukdes a principal vector of yellow fever, Aedes aegypti.