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cistaceous

cistaceous adjective: belonging to the family Cistaceae of rockroses.

Adjective

cistaceous (not comparable)

  1. Belonging to the family Cistaceae of rockroses.

Origin of cistaceous

Cistaceae + -ous

Questions about cistaceous

What does cistaceous mean?
Cistaceous means belonging to the family Cistaceae of rockroses.
What part of speech is cistaceous?
Cistaceous is an adjective.

Words near cistaceous in the dictionary

  1. cissus
  2. cissuses
  3. cissy
  4. cist
  5. CISTA
  6. cistaceous
  7. cistactic
  8. cistacticity
  9. cistanbuloside
  10. cistancinenside
  11. cistanoside

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