Crossword clues for maranta
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Maranta \Ma*ran"ta\, prop. n. [NL.] (Bot.) A genus of endogenous plants found in tropical America, and some species also in India. They have tuberous roots containing a large amount of starch, and from one species ( Maranta arundinacea, the American arrowroot or obedience plant) arrowroot ( arrowroot starch) is obtained. Many kinds are cultivated for ornament.
WordNet
n. any of numerous herbs of the genus Maranta having tuberous starchy roots and large sheathing leaves
Wikipedia
Maranta can refer to:
- The Marantaceae family of "prayer plants", including arrowroot
- Maranta (genus), a genus within that family
Maranta as a personal name may refer to:
- In author citation (botany), Maranta is Bartolomeo Maranta, the 16th century botanist for whom the Marantaceae are named and also a literary theorist
- Barry Maranta, Australian sports administrator
- Lachlan Maranta (born 1992), Australian Rugby League player, Grandson of Barry Maranta
- For Edgard Aristide Maranta, see Roman Catholic Diocese of Zanzibar; for Edgar Aristide Maranta (possibly the same person), see Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dar-es-Salaam
- Maranta, a character in the Dragonlance series; see List of minor Dragonlance characters#Kang's Regiment
Maranta is a genus of flowering plants in the family Marantaceae, native to tropical Central and South America, and the West Indies. Maranta was named for Bartolomeo Maranta, an Italian physician and botanist of the sixteenth century.
About 40-50 species are currently recognised. They all have rhizomes and naturally form perennial clumps. The crowded oval, evergreen leaves are undivided with sheathing stalks. The leaves are flat by day and folded up erect in the evening, hence the common name "prayer plant" which attaches to the genus and its species - notably M. leuconeura. The flowers are small with three petals and two larger petal-like staminodes.
Usage examples of "maranta".
The succession in Jentesi was by no means clear, and the folk listened avidly as she named Syne, Coreon, Maranta, and Culdyn, the four possible heirs to the sword, and spoke of who backed which candidate, and what the various guilds and seminarians had to say about it.
Lady Maranta, for the edification of the masses, has sponsored a clockworks exhibition at City House.
Lady, that Maranta or Coreon might try to kill me, to keep me from oathing to your brother.
The old man touched the guild token and stared distastefully into the bloody box, Maranta stuffed all her fingers into her mouth, Coreon stared at the box, and Syne stared at Culdyn, who looked resolutely across the room, lips tight.
Lyeth said angrily, but Maranta jerked away from the wall, hands flying.
At Culdyn, who pulls his lips out, or at Maranta, who puts him on her lists, or at Syne, who stares at him.
They slowly drifted apart, Maranta edging ahead of the phosphorescent blue splash, Gramine falling behind.
So if we want to leave, we either wait until Maranta and Gramine decide to call it a day and quit, or hang on until their search pattern carries them far enough away to allow us to make a dash for a jump coordinate.
It would be difficult jumping to Lalonde with Maranta and Gramine following us.
No way will Maranta be able to follow us through those kind of manoeuvres.
Gramine nor Maranta have deviated their track by more than a hundred metres since the search began.
They went toward the nursery, for Maranta and Marigold were already crying with hunger.
Brassica, and Zea, and Maranta, and Capsicum, a fiery fellow, and Nasturtium, crowned with bright orange-flowers, and a great many others.
Lastly, violent agitation by a strong wind, during a few minutes, of the leaves of Maranta arundinacea (which previously had not been disturbed in the hothouse), prevented their sleeping during the two next nights.
Maranta arundinacea, nyctitropic movement of leaves, 389391 --, after much agitation do not sleep, 319 Marsilia quadrifoliata, effect of radiation at night, 292 --, circumnutation and nyctitropic movement of leaflets, 392394 --, rate of movement, 404 Martins, on radiation at night, 284, n.