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carduaceous

carduaceous adjective: belonging to the Carduaceae of plants.

Adjective

carduaceous (not comparable)

  1. Belonging to the Carduaceae of plants.

Origin of carduaceous

Carduaceae + -ous

Questions about carduaceous

What does carduaceous mean?
Carduaceous means belonging to the Carduaceae of plants.
What part of speech is carduaceous?
Carduaceous is an adjective.

Words near carduaceous in the dictionary

  1. cardstocks
  2. Cardston
  3. Cardston County
  4. cardtable
  5. cardtables
  6. carduaceous
  7. Carducci
  8. Carduccis
  9. Carduchi
  10. Carduchian
  11. carduelid

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