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Look up: arum

  1. Arum
    (Black Calla, Italian Arum) These are hardy and tender plants that grow wild in Europe and Asia. They shouldn't be confused with the Arum Lily (Zantedeschia) or the Water Arum (Calla palustris). These plants are more interesting than pretty. A. italicum grows to 2 feet and has spear-shaped leaves an...
    Found on http://www.botany.com/arum.html

  2. arum
    [n] - starch resembling sago that is obtained from cuckoopint root 2. [n] - any plant of the family Araceae
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. Arum
    A'rum noun [ Latin arum , aros , Greek ....] A genus of plants found in central Europe and about the Mediterranean, having flowers on a spadix inclosed in a spathe. The cuckoopint of the English is an example. « Our common a...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/A/127

  4. arum
    A genus of plants found in central Europe and about the Mediterranean, having flowers on a spadix inclosed in a spathe. The cuckoopint of the English is an example. 'Our common arums the lords and ladies of village children.' (Lubbock) ... The American 'Jack in the pulpit' is now separated from the ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  5. arum
    noun any plant of the family Araceae; have small flowers massed on a spadix surrounded by a large spathe
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  6. Arum
    • (n.) A genus of plants found in central Europe and about the Mediterranean, having flowers on a spadix inclosed in a spathe. The cuckoopint of the English is an example.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  7. Arum
    genus of low-growing tuberous perennial plants in the family Araceae (order Arales). Of the 15 species generally recognized, a few are grown for ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/a/108

  8. arum
    arum, common name for the Araceae, a plant family mainly composed of species of herbaceous terrestrial and epiphytic plants found in moist to wet habitats of the tropics and subtropics; some are native to temperate zones. The family is characterized by an inflorescence consisting of a single spadix ...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A08049

  9. Arum
    Arum is a genus of plants of the natural order Aracese. Arum maculatum (the common wake-robin, or lords-and-ladies) is abundant in woods and hedges in England and Ireland. It has acrid properties, but its corm yields a starch, which is known by the name of Portland sago or arrow-root. At one time th...
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  10. arum
    Any of a group of mainly European plants with narrow leaves and a single, usually white, special leaf (spathe) surrounding the spike of tiny flowers. The ornamental arum called the trumpet lily (Zantedeschia aethiopica) is a native of South Africa. (Genus Arum, f...
    Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/ency

  11. Arum
    `Arum` is a genus of about 25 species of flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to Europe, northern Africa, and western Asia, with the highest species diversity in the Mediterranean region. They are rhizomatous, herbaceous perennial plants growing to 20-60 cm tall, with sagit...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arum



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