1) Genus curcuma 2) Liliopsid genus 3) Monocot genus
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Curcuma is a genus of about 100 accepted species in the family Zingiberaceae that contains such species as turmeric and Siam Tulip. They are native to Southeast Asia, southern China, the Indian Subcontinent, New Guinea and northern Australia. Some species are reportedly naturalised in other warm parts of the world such as tropical Africa, Central ...
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• (n.) A genus of plants of the order Scitamineae, including the turmeric plant (Curcuma longa).
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(from the article `Zingiberales`) The species of the order that occur in seasonal parts of the tropics are adapted to withstand drought. Some of them (e.g., Kaempferia, Curcuma, and ...
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(Turmeric) These are tropical, herbaceous plants that can be grown in a warm, humid greenhouse having a minimum winter temperature of 60 degrees. The most important kind is C. longa, a native of India, but widely cultivated throughout India, Ceylon, the East Indies, Fiji and Queensland for its underground stems from which, when dried and ground, th...
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Cur'cu·ma noun [ Confer F., Italian , & Spanish
curcuma ; all from Arabic
kurkum . Confer
Turmeric .]
(Botany) A genus of plants of the order
Scitamineæ , including the turmeric plant (
Curcuma longa ).
Curcuma paper .
(Chemistry) ...
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turmeric
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turmeric.
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[n] - tropical Asiatic perennial herbs
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genus Curcuma noun tropical Asiatic perennial herbs
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any of various chiefly Old World plants belonging to the genus Curcuma, of the ginger family, as C. domestica, yielding turmeric, or C. zedoaria, yielding zedoary.
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