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Topic Started: Sep 18 2010, 01:07 PM (1,747 Views)
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Hence Metazoica.
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Hence indeed. But it could mean several things.

Metaphyta, for example, is more about being advanced. You'd have to know the context for that to be clear.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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and do you just use the first couple letters of the actuall word?
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They tend to be prefixes, like meta-, con- or post-. So no editing is needed.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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thanks!

EDIT: what do you think about this name: kryozoic ?
Edited by Dragon wasp, Sep 18 2010, 02:31 PM.
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In biology Latin and Greek prefixes/suffixes are combined to create words with have meanings, such as in the names of scientific animals (i.e, homo sapiens means "Thinkers (sapien), Who Are Us (homo, which actually means "same," like in homosexual or homicide). I generally read names like that with species first, in the form above (it makes more sense to me than reading the group first then the individual, since the reason it's grouped like that is to show that the individual species is part of the genus group). Learning prefixes and how to put them together is difficult (it was mandatory in my freshman biology class, ugh), but it's very useful for figuring out words you don't know. For instance, Neozoic. You don't know what it means (pretend if you actually do), but you know that neo means new and zoic means era. Based on that, as well as the context the word is used in, you can figure out what complicated scientific terms, or any Latin terms really, easily.
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I thought "Zoic" meant "Animals". So Paleozoic means Ancient Animals, Mesozoic means Middle Animals, Cenozoic means Recent Animals, and so on and so forth.
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Nope. It's Era.
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http://www.answers.com/topic/zoic

The Greek word for era is "epoch." In Latin it's "temporibus." I'm not seeing how you get -zoic from that. If there's a source for "-zoic = era" then I'd like to see it.
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Cene- allegedly means recent, ie oligocene means little recent.

Zoic sounds like animals.

Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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Are you plausible?

That's because it is.
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I was supporting you.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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Are you plausible?

Did I say you weren't? :confused:
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No, but i got slight hostility vibes. I was probably being paranoid.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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I didn't intend any. Sorry. (Note to self: use more emoticons. :) )
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