AROID

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I. (noun)

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Meaning:

Any plant of the family Araceae; have small flowers massed on a spadix surrounded by a large spathe

Synonyms:

aroid; arum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("aroid" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "aroid"):

malanga; spoonflower; tannia; Xanthosoma atrovirens; Xanthosoma sagittifolium; yautia (tropical American aroid having edible tubers that are cooked and eaten like yams or potatoes)

nephthytis (any plant of the genus Nephthytis)

Dracunculus vulgaris; dragon arum; green dragon (European arum resembling the cuckoopint)

dracontium (any plant of the genus Dracontium; strongly malodorous tropical American plants usually with gigantic leaves)

Dieffenbachia sequine; dumb cane; mother-in-law's tongue; mother-in-law plant (an evergreen plant with large showy dark green leaves; contains a poison that swells the tongue and throat hence the name)

Colocasia esculenta; dalo; dasheen; taro; taro plant (herb of the Pacific islands grown throughout the tropics for its edible root and in temperate areas as an ornamental for its large glossy leaves)

caladium (any plant of the genus Caladium cultivated for their ornamental foliage variously patterned in white or pink or red)

Arisarum vulgare; friar's-cowl (tuberous perennial having a cowl-shaped maroon or violet-black spathe; Mediterranean; Canaries; Azores)

Arisaema dracontium; green dragon (early spring-flowering plant of eastern North America resembling the related jack-in-the-pulpit but having digitate leaves, slender greenish yellow spathe and elongated spadix)

Arisaema atrorubens; Arisaema triphyllum; Indian turnip; jack-in-the-pulpit; wake-robin (common American spring-flowering woodland herb having sheathing leaves and an upright club-shaped spadix with overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet berries)

Amorphophallus titanum; krubi; titan arum (malodorous tropical plant having a spathe that resembles the corolla of a morning glory and attains a diameter of several feet)

Amorphophallus rivieri; devil's tongue; snake palm; umbrella arum (foul-smelling somewhat fleshy tropical plant of southeastern Asia cultivated for its edible corms or in the greenhouse for its large leaves and showy dark red spathe surrounding a large spadix)

Amorphophallus campanulatus; Amorphophallus paeonifolius; elephant yam; pungapung; telingo potato (putrid-smelling aroid of southeastern Asia (especially the Philippines) grown for its edible tuber)

amorphophallus (any plant of the genus Amorphophallus)

alocasia; elephant's ear; elephant ear (any plant of the genus Alocasia having large showy basal leaves and boat-shaped spathe and reddish berries)

Arum palaestinum; black calla (ornamental plant of Middle East cultivated for its dark purple spathe)

Arum maculatum; cuckoopint; jack-in-the-pulpit; lords-and-ladies (common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; emerges in early spring; source of a starch called arum)

Holonyms ("aroid" is a member of...):

Araceae; arum family; family Araceae (anthurium; calla lily; jack-in-the-pulpit; philodendron)

Derivation:

aroid (relating to a plant of the family Araceae)