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ELEPHANT'S EAR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tropical South American tree having a wide-spreading crown of bipinnate leaves and coiled ear-shaped fruits; grown for shade and ornament as well as valuable timber
Synonyms:
conacaste; elephant's ear; Enterolobium cyclocarpa
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("elephant's ear" is a kind of...):
tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)
Holonyms ("elephant's ear" is a member of...):
Enterolobium; genus Enterolobium (small genus of tropical American timber trees closely allied to genus Albizia)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Any plant of the genus Alocasia having large showy basal leaves and boat-shaped spathe and reddish berries
Synonyms:
alocasia; elephant's ear; elephant ear
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("elephant's ear" is a kind of...):
aroid; arum (any plant of the family Araceae; have small flowers massed on a spadix surrounded by a large spathe)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "elephant's ear"):
Alocasia macrorrhiza; giant taro (large evergreen with extremely large erect or spreading leaves; cultivated widely in tropics for its edible rhizome and shoots; used in wet warm regions as a stately ornamental)
Holonyms ("elephant's ear" is a member of...):
genus Alocasia (tropical Asiatic herbs similar to Colocasia but distinguished by a large sterile spadix)
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