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Crassulaceae vs Crassulacean - What's the difference?

crassulaceae | crassulacean |

As a proper noun crassulaceae

is .

As an adjective crassulacean is

of or pertaining to the family crassulaceae of dicotyledons.

crassulaceae

Not English

Crassulaceae has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

crassulacean

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Of or pertaining to the family Crassulaceae of dicotyledons.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=May 31, author=Dominique Browning, title=Gardening Books, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=His description of crassulacean acid metabolism, wherein cacti, yuccas, agaves and sedums open their stomata at night when it’s cooler in order to “bind carbon dioxide on special molecules much like we bind oxygen on hemoglobin in our blood” had me on edge for hours. }}