| 单词 | -aceous |
| 释义 | -aceousa 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), especially adjectival correspondents to taxonomic names ending in -acea and -aceae: rosaceous. Origin of -aceous<Latin -āceus;see -ous Words nearby -aceousacellular pertussis vaccine, acellular vaccine, acelomate, acenesthesia, acentric, -aceous, ace out, acephalobrachia, acephalocardia, acephalocheiria, acephalocyst Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for -aceous-aceous suffix forming adjectivesrelating to, belonging to, having the nature of, or resemblingherbaceous; larvaceous Word Origin for -aceousNew Latin, from Latin -āceus of a certain kind; related to -āc, -āx, adjectival suffix Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Scientific definitions for -aceous-aceous A suffix used to form adjectives meaning made of or resembling a particular substance or material, such as silicaceous, containing silicon. The American Heritage® Science Dictionary Copyright © 2011. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |
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