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CURCUMA

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Tropical Asiatic perennial herbs

Synonyms:

Curcuma; genus Curcuma

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Curcuma"):

Curcuma domestica; Curcuma longa; turmeric (widely cultivated tropical plant of India having yellow flowers and a large aromatic deep yellow rhizome; source of a condiment and a yellow dye)

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

family Zingiberaceae; ginger family; Zingiberaceae (a family of tropical monocotyledonous plants of order Musales)

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