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GENUS ARUM

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Meaning:

Type genus of the Araceae: tuberous perennial herbs of Europe and Asia with usually heart-shaped leaves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Arum" is a kind of...):

liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "genus Arum"):

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)

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

Holonyms ("genus Arum" is a member of...):

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

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