The botanical family name for papaya and related plants, used in scientific plant classification.
From New Latin botanical nomenclature, formed by adding the Latin family suffix -aceae to 'Carica,' following Linnaean taxonomic naming conventions for plant families.
When botanists name plant families, they always end in -aceae (pronounced like 'ay-see-ee')—so once you know a plant's genus like 'Carica,' you can predict the family name will be 'Caricaceae'!
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