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arum family
[ air-uhm ]
noun
- the plant family Araceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having numerous tiny flowers on a fleshy spike above or sheathed by a large spathe, and including the anthurium, calla lily, jack-in-the-pulpit, and philodendron.
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Other yĐÄvlog Forms
- ˛š°ůîułžÂˇąôžą°ěąđî adjective
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yĐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of arum family1
1545â55; < Latin < Greek ĂĄ°ů´Ç˛Ô wake-robin
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Taro, tďż˝â˛rĹ, n. a plant of the arum family, widely cultivated for its edible roots in the islands of the Pacific.
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The dasheen is a broad-leaved member of the arum family.
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Neb prepared some agouti soup, a smoked capybara ham, to which was added the boiled tubercules of the "caladium macrorhizum," an herbaceous plant of the arum family.
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Sweetâ˛ener, one who, or that which, sweetens; Sweetâ˛ening, act of sweetening: that which sweetens; Sweetâ˛-flag, -rush, an aromatic plant of the genus Acorus of the arum family; Sweetâ˛heart, a lover or mistress.ân.pl.
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