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strepto-
word-forming element used in science to mean "twisted," from Latinized comb. form of Greek
streptos
"twisted, easy to bend, pliant," verbal adjective of
strephein
"to turn, twist," from PIE
*streb(h)-
"to wind, turn" (see
strophe
).
