haemato-
See also: hæmato-
English
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editRepresenting the combining form of Ancient Greek αἷμα (haîma, “blood”).
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edithaemato-
- blood
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 801: [compare -phage]
- Back in the late ’90s, when vampirism became fashionable owing to the international popularity of the novel Dracula [...] A subcircuit of the Buda-Pesth telephone exchange had apparently been reserved for the use of hæmatophages, as they were then known
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 801: [compare -phage]