-tricha

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1. a combining form meaning “ones having hair” of the kind or number specified by the initial element, used in taxonomic names, especially in taxa of ciliated protozoans.

   Chonotricha; Spirotricha.

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Etymology

Origin of -tricha

< New Latin < Greek, neuter plural of -trichos ( see -trich)

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