GENUS ALOCASIA

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Meaning:

Tropical Asiatic herbs similar to Colocasia but distinguished by a large sterile spadix

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Alocasia" 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 Alocasia"):

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

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

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