arum

/ ˈɛərəm /

noun

1. any plant of the aroid genus Arum, of Europe and the Mediterranean region, having arrow-shaped leaves and a typically white spathe See also cuckoopint
2. arum lily
   another name for calla

Word History and Origins

Origin of arum¹

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

Example Sentences

We found the tubers (but not the flowers) of an arum, which the Tibetans collect and make of it a very unpalatable bread.

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Broad, rank, green arum leaves crowded each other in places.

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Stubbs went through the elder trees, whose buds were growing big and purple, and he dug up and ate the wild arum tubers.

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Richardia, ri-chr′di-a, n. a small genus of South African herbs of the Arum family, including the calla-lily.

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

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