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Single crystals of praseodymium tartrate dihydrate possessing excellent ferroelectric, non-linear optical (NLO) properties and exhibiting remarkably flat habit faces are successfully grown by gel technique. The most predominant habit face is identified to be {101}. The dielectric behaviour recorded on {101} planes of single crystals exhibit a dielectric anomaly at 245°C, revealing a ferroelectric transition which is supported by thermal and polarisation versus electric field studies. The optical measurement leads to a band gap of 5.13 eV which is shown to be in good agreement with the studies of high-resolution x-ray diffraction (HRXRD), transport properties and NLO behaviour of the material. Absence of grain boundaries, thermal stability, ferroelectric and NLO behaviour supports the grown single crystal to find its place in microelectronic industry as a multifunctional material.