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  1. poly- love

Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. More than one; many; much: polyatomic.
  2. More than usual; excessive; abnormal: polydipsia.
  3. Polymer; polymeric: polyethylene.

Wiktionary

  1. many
  2. polymer

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. A combining form or prefix from Gr. poly`s, many

Etymologies

  1. From Ancient Greek πολύς (polus, "many, much") (Wiktionary)
  2. Greek polu-, from polus, much, many; see pelə-1 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. poly-germander
  2. poley
  3. poly-mountain
  1. rolley-polley
  2. rowly-powly
  3. roll
  1. roll-up
  2. roly-poly
  3. polypharmacist
  1. polyesthesia
  2. polyesthesis
  3. pill bug
  1. poly-
  2. cucurbitaceæ
  3. cyclobranchiata
  1. mahernia
  2. spondias
  3. mamanite

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  1. prefix

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Words tagged ‘poly-’

  1. polydipsia
  2. polygeneration
  3. polygon
  1. polygram
  2. polygraph
  3. polyhedron
  1. polylogy
  2. polymer
  3. polymerase
  1. polymorph
  2. polymorphism
  3. polypseudonym
  1. polysyllabicity
  2. polysyndeton
  3. polytechnic

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