-phore

a combining form meaning “bearer of,” “thing or part bearing” that specified by the initial element: gonophore.

Compare -phorous.

Origin of -phore

< New Latin -phorus < Greek -phoros bearing, verbid of phérein; see bear¹

-phobe, -phobia, -phobic, -phone, -phony, -phore, -phoresis, -phorous, -phrenia, -phyl, -phyll

-phore

indicating a person or thing that bears or produces gonophore; semaphore

-phorous, adj combining form

from New Latin -phorus, from Greek -phoros bearing, from pherein to bear

-phore

Bearer; carrier:chromatophore.