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variant of sarco-, especially before a vowel: sarcoma.

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On the farm, the feed for chicks is significantly different from the roosters’; ______ not even comparable.

-sarc

a combining form meaning “one having flesh or tissue” of the kind specified by the initial element: ectosarc.

<Greek -sarcos, derivative of sárx flesh