A plant family that includes rare, parasitic plants that live on the roots of other plants in arid regions.
Formed from the genus 'cynomorium' plus the Latin suffix '-aceae' used for plant families; the base comes from Greek 'cyno-' (dog) and 'morion' (root or idiot), referencing the plant's appearance.
These mysterious parasitic plants essentially steal nutrients from host plants' roots while remaining almost invisible—they're some of the rarest flowering plants on Earth and were completely unknown to science until quite recently.
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