arum

/ (ˈɛərəm) /

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noun

any plant of the aroid genus Arum, of Europe and the Mediterranean region, having arrow-shaped leaves and a typically white spatheSee also cuckoopint

arum lily another name for calla (def. 1)

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Word Origin for arum

C16: from Latin, a variant of aros wake-robin, from Greek aron

Words nearby arum

Artzybashev, Aruba, arugula, aruhe, Aru Islands, arum, arum family, Arunachal Pradesh, Arundel, arundinaceous, run for one's money, a

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We found the tubers (but not the flowers) of an arum, which the Tibetans collect and make of it a very unpalatable bread.
Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921|Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury
Broad, rank, green arum leaves crowded each other in places.
The Hills and the Vale|Richard Jefferies
Stubbs went through the elder trees, whose buds were growing big and purple, and he dug up and ate the wild arum tubers.
Lives of the Fur Folk|M. D. Haviland
Richardia, ri-chr′di-a, n. a small genus of South African herbs of the Arum family, including the calla-lily.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R)|Various

Om, good-natured in the war of Mahisha dema, you became arum plant.
Cultus Arborum|Anonymous

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