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-aceae

American  
Botany.

  1. a suffix used in the formation of names of families.

    Rosaceae.
-aceae British  

suffix

  1. 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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