: a family of mostly fleshy herbs and subshrubs (order Rosales) having a scalelike gland at the base of each of the three or more connate pistils compare sedum, stonecrop
crassulaceous
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adjective
Word History
Etymology
New Latin, from Crassula, type genus + -aceae
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