-aceous: Meaning and Definition of

-aceous

Pronunciation: [key]
  1. a suffix with the meanings “resembling, having the nature of,” “made of,” occurring in loanwords from Latin (cretaceous; herbaceous) and forming adjectives in English on the Latin model (ceraceous), esp. adjectival correspondents to taxonomic names ending inandrosaceous.
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