Belonging to or characteristic of the Cyrillaceae plant family.
From Cyrillaceae (the plant family) plus '-ous' (full of, having the nature of). Standard botanical adjective formation for family characteristics.
When botanists name family traits with '-aceous' endings, they're using a naming system so precise that a scientist from Japan to Brazil recognizes instantly which plants you mean.
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