Word origin
[1650–60; ‹ NL, equiv. to L (
h)
arundin- (s. of
harundō reed) +
-āceus -aceous]This word is first recorded in the period 1650–60. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: agency, backhand, cardholder, oscillation, profile-aceous is a suffix with the meanings “resembling, having the nature of,” “made of,” occurringin loanwords from Latin (cretaceous; herbaceous) and forming adjectives in English on the Latin model (ceraceous), esp. adjectival correspondents to taxonomic names ending in -acea and -aceae (rosaceous)