WordNet
arum family
n. anthurium; calla lily; jack-in-the-pulpit; philodendron [syn: Araceae, family Araceae]
Usage examples of "arum family".
The Arum family, Aroidae, which numbers nearly 1,000 members, mostly tropical, and many of them marsh or water plants, is represented in this country by a sole species, Arum maculatum (Linn.
Neb prepared some agouti soup, a smoked capybara ham, to which was added the boiled tubercules of the caladium macrorhizum, an herbaceous plant of the arum family.