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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

alliaceous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
al-li-a-ceous
IPA
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Smelling or tasting of garlic or onion.

Etymology

From Latin allium (“garlic”) + -aceous.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

more alliaceous (comparative) most alliaceous (superlative)

Derived Forms

alliaceousness

Rhymes With

gracious spacious cretaceous tenacious audacious gaseous herbaceous voracious flirtatious vivacious ostentatious fallacious

Questions

What does alliaceous mean?
Smelling or tasting of garlic or onion.
Where does alliaceous come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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