arum

/ ˈɛərəm /

noun

See cuckoopint
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
See calla
arum lily
arum lily another name for calla

Origin of arum¹

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

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

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

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

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

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

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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