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    GENUS CURCUMA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Tropical Asiatic perennial herbsplay

    Synonyms:

    Curcuma; genus Curcuma

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("genus 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 "genus 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 ("genus Curcuma" is a member of...):

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

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