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GENUS TACCA

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Meaning:

Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers

Synonyms:

genus Tacca; Tacca

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Tacca" is a kind of...):

liliid monocot genus (genus of monocotyledonous plants comprising mostly herbs having usually petaloid sepals and petals and compound pistils)

Meronyms (members of "genus Tacca"):

Indian arrowroot; pia; Tacca leontopetaloides; Tacca pinnatifida (perennial herb of East Indies to Polynesia and Australia; cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch)

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

family Taccaceae; Taccaceae (small family of tropical herbs)

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