word base
Linguistics
noun
The simple form from which the derivatives and inflected forms of a word arise; the uninflected or unaffixed form of a word.
Origin
Mid 19th century.
- biomedicine
- biometeorologist
- biometeorology
- biometer
- biomethane
- biometric
- biometrical
- biometrically
- biometrician
- biometricist
- biometric reader
- biometrics
- biometric signature
- biometry
- biomicroscopy
- biomimetic
- biomimicry
- biomineral
- biomineralisation
- biomineralised
- biomineralization
- biomineralized
- biomolecular
- biomolecule
- biomorph