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    GENUS ARISAEMA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Tuberous or rhizomatous herbaceous perennialsplay

    Synonyms:

    Arisaema; genus Arisaema

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("genus Arisaema" 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 Arisaema"):

    Arisaema atrorubens; Arisaema triphyllum; Indian turnip; jack-in-the-pulpit; wake-robin (common American spring-flowering woodland herb having sheathing leaves and an upright club-shaped spadix with overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet berries)

    Arisaema dracontium; green dragon (early spring-flowering plant of eastern North America resembling the related jack-in-the-pulpit but having digitate leaves, slender greenish yellow spathe and elongated spadix)

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

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

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