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-acea
is always a great word to know.
So is chordata. Does it mean:
| phylum comprised of chordates |
| vertebrate with body hair that nourishes young with milk from mammary glands |
Collins
World English Dictionary
| -acea | |
| —suffix forming plural proper nouns | |
| denoting animals belonging to a class or order: Crustacea | |
| [New Latin, from Latin, neuter plural of -āceus | |
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Word Origin & History
-acea
suffix denoting orders and classes in zoology, from L. -acea, neut. pl. of -aceus "belonging to, of the nature of" (enlarged from adj. suffix -ax, gen. -acis); neut. pl. because of a presumed animalia, a neuter plural noun. Thus, crustacea "shellfish" are *crustacea animalia "crusty animals." In botany,
EXPANDthe suffix is -aceae, from the fem. pl. of -aceus, with reference to L. plantae, which is a fem. plural.
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