epi-

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 * 1)  Above in location or position.
 * is above a littoral zone, is above the nose,  is above a necral layer
 * 1)  Upon, atop, directly on top of in terms of position.
 * is benthic organisms that live on top of the sediment, is growing on rocks,  is on the spinal cord
 * 1)   Relating to epigenetics.
 * is outside of a chromosome, is an epigenetic clone,  is the total epigenetic state of a cell
 * 1)  Secondary: a consequence, by-product, additional, or lesser version.
 * is a second language used regularly for some purpose or purposes, is an activity, process, or state that is the result of another,  is a toxoid that generates less of an immune response than an original one
 * 1)  A part or segment that is located on the upper part of an object.
 * is the upper part of a karst system, is the upper phase of a multiphase system,  is the upper segment of the sternum
 * 1)  A part or locatation that is outer, particularly an outer layer.
 * is the outer layer of the skin of vertebrates, is the outer margin of an elytron of a beetle,  is a projection on the outer side of the distal end of the humerus
 * 1)   Denotes an epimeric form.
 * is an epimer of cedrol, is the 3α- isomer of cholesterol,  is an inactive epimer of the steroid hormone testosterone
 * 1)  Located on the surface.
 * is on the surface of a fascia, is on the surface layer of a liquid body,  is growing or living on the surface of wood
 * 1)   Epibiotic: an organism that lives on another organism.
 * is behaviour of epibiotic parasites, is an epibiotic symbiont,  is of or relating to an epibiotic symbiotic relationship
 * 1)  Outward in direction or projection.
 * is hook-billed, is a nastic movement which bends a plant part outwards,  is a small projection arising from the thoracic legs of a crustacean
 * 1)  More, above a usual quantity, additional in quantity.
 * is used attributively to describe kinetic energies above that at which cadmium has a large neutron cross section, is an occurrence of a disease or disorder in a population at a frequency higher than that expected in a given time period,  is excessive menstruation
 * 1)  Beyond, meta, transcending.
 * is relating to the transmission of force without the use of muscles, is a more subconscious, self-imposed, form of metalanguage,  is a theory based on a more fundamental theory or on a metatheory
 * 1)   Epidemiology
 * is an epidemic among animals, is pertaining to a disease of high morbidity that is occasionally present in a bird population
 * 1)  Near in position.
 * is when bacteria live in close proximity to but not inside a host cell, is when a gas giant has a close orbit to its parent star,  is abnormal symptoms near the site of a tuberculous lesion
 * 1)  Outranked, above in rank.
 * is a rank between family and superfamily, is mostly monophyletic but containing some hybrids,  was an administrative sub-provincial unit in post-Ottoman independent Greece
 * 1)  Surrounding in position: the edges of the root entity.
 * is surrounding a fascicle, is surrounding, or on the edge of the macula,  is surrounding a perimeter
 * 1)  Covering: the root entity is covered.
 * is a cartilaginous organ in the throat of terrestrial vertebrates covering the glottis when swallowing to prevent food and liquid from entering the trachea,  is the thickish outer coat of certain spores,  is a form of projector that projects images of opaque objects
 * 1)  After in time.
 * is coming after the classical period and, is changes in the mineral content of rock after its formation,  is the Mesolithic period (post-Paleolithic)
 * 1)  Overlapping in position.
 * is having overlapping lobes, is a structure that overlaps the mouth in certain insects,  is the intersection of the baselines of two cameras used to form a stereo image
 * 1)  Mapping onto, passing along, resolving to.
 * is a morphism analogous to a surjective function is a rhetorical device where a sequence of rhetorical questions is used to elicit an emotional response,  is the meaning expressed by a tagmeme
 * 1)  Top: a part that is positioned at the uppermost of multiple levels.
 * is of, pertaining to, or inhabiting the water from the surface of the sea down to 200 metres, is plankton normally living in the top hundred fathoms of a body of water (at a depth of about 180 metres or less),  is the apical (top) valve of a diatom
 * 1)  Front or anterior in position.
 * is relating to the anterior of the tibia, is either of the foremost pair of lateral plates in the plastron of turtles,  is the anterior part of the pleuron of an insect
 * 1)  Entirety, a system being referred to as a whole.
 * is a network of chaperomes present in cancer cells, is a group of organisms (such as a hive of bees,  is a critical or analytical study, evaluation, or summing up, especially of a medical case history
 * 1)  Outside of in position.
 * is of or pertaining to the space immediately outside the dura mater, is above or outside the endoskeleton,  is the locus of a point on the circumference of a circle that rolls without slipping on the circumference of another circle
 * 1)  Shallow in depth.
 * is describing deposits of minerals formed from warm water at shallow depth, is a thin layer of polysaccharide on the surface of the cortex,  is growing on, or close to, the ground
 * 1)  Similar, in the same form of, resembling.
 * is that becomes segmented prior to hatching, is in the form of a tube,  is a group of bracts resembling a calyx
 * 1)  Upwards in direction or growth.
 * is in some gastropods, an enlargement of the vas deferens that continues beyond the apex of the penis, is an epitaxial film,  is epitaxial growth

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 * Russian: эпи-
 * Sicilian: epi-, supra-
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Etymology
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Prefix

 * 1) Above, over, on, in addition to.

Etymology
From, from.

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 * 1) above, over, on
 * 1) above, over, on

Etymology
From.

Prefix

 * 1)  above, over, on, in addition to

Prefix

 * 1)  above, over, on, in addition to