Saturday, December 11, 2010
Corantus
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noun Bot. Family of dicotyledonous plants that includes very few species native to America.
Type genus: Achatocarpus.
From modern Latin Achatocarpaceae; from Achatocarpus, name of a plant genus; and the Latin suffix -aceae, «-aceous».
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