-bius

noun combining form

-bi·​us

bēəs

: one that has a (specified) mode of life

—chiefly in generic names in zoology

Enterobius

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from -bius having a (specified) mode of life, from Greek -bios, from bios mode of life

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