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Widely distributed genus of tropical herbs or subshrubs
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corchorus
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n. (context botany English) Any of the genus (taxlink Corchorus genus) of malvaceous flowering plants.
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Corchorus \Cor"cho*rus\ (k[^o]r"k[-o]*r[u^]s), n. [Nl., fr. L. corchorus a poor kind of pulse, Gr. ko`rchoros a wild plant of bitter taste.] (Bot.) The common name of the Kerria Japonica or Japan globeflower, a yellow-flowered, perennial, rosaceous plant, ...
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n. any of various plants of the genus Corchorus having large leaves and cymose clusters of yellow flowers; a source of jute widely distributed genus of tropical herbs or subshrubs; especially Asia [syn: genus Corchorus ]
Wikipedia
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Corchorus is a genus of about 40–100 species of flowering plants in the family Malvaceae , native to tropical and subtropical regions throughout the world. Different common names are used in different contexts, with jute applying to the fiber produced from ...