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- - phasic
  - phasing
  - phat
  - phatic
  - PhD
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  - pheasant's eye
  - pheasantry
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  - phencyclidine
  - pheno-
  - phenobarbitone
  - phenocryst
  - phenol
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  - phenomenal
  - phenomenalism
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pheno-

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
pheno- /ˈfiːnəʊ/ (also phen- before a vowel)

▶combining form

1 Chemistry derived from benzene: phenobarbitone.

2 showing: phenotype.

– origin Sense 1 from Fr. phényle ‘phenyl’, from Gk phaino- ‘shining’; both senses from Gk phainein ‘to show’.

'pheno-' also found in these Oxford entries:

chloramphenicol - phen- - phencyclidine

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