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-aceae

American

Botany.

a suffix used in the formation of names of families.

Rosaceae.

-aceae British

suffix

denoting plants belonging to a family

Liliaceae
Ranunculaceae

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Etymology

Origin of -aceae

< Latin, feminine plural of -āceus. See -aceous

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