arum

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a plant of the genus Arum, having arrow-shaped leaves and a club-shaped spadix partly enclosed by a hoodlike spathe

   An arum pushed its hooded flower above the damp woodland floor.

2. 2
   noun

   loosely, any plant of the arum family Araceae with a similar spadix and spathe

   The tropical arum had broad leaves and a pale green spathe.

From Latin arum, borrowed from Greek aron, the name of the cuckoopint or a related plant. Botanical English later used Arum as a genus name and extended arum informally to similar members of the family Araceae.

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