Etymology · Ancient Greek
μικρός
9 English words descend from Ancient Greek μικρός, most common first.
- microVery small in scale or scope.
- microscopeAn optical instrument used for observing small objects.
- microbeAny microorganism; (loosely, nonscientifically) especially, a harmful bacterium.
- microbionA microbe.
- microcephalicHaving an abnormally small head.
- microdrileAny relatively small, generally aquatic, oligochaete, a member of a sometimes used size-based division of the class Oligochaeta.
- microlithicFormed of small stones.
- micropachycephalosaurusa very small pachycephalosaurid, ornithischian dinosaur of the genus Micropachycephalosaurus.
- micropyleIn seed-bearing plants, a small opening in the integuments of the ovule through which sperm are able to access the ovum.