idio-

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idio-

(id'ē-ō),

Private, distinctive, peculiar to. Compare: ideo-.

[G. idios, one's own]

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idio-

Prefix meaning private, distinctive, peculiar to.
Compare: ideo-

[G. idios, one's own]

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idio-

Combining form denoting personal, individual, originating within oneself, without external cause.

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idio-

prefix denoting individual, peculiar.

Collins Dictionary of Biology, 3rd ed. © W. G. Hale, V. A. Saunders, J. P. Margham 2005

idio-

Combining form meaning private, distinctive, peculiar to.

[G. idios, one's own].

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Flaubert's proposition

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