"aroid" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "kind": "lifeform",
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          "name": "Arum family plants",
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        {
          "ref": "1920, Sir Harry Johnston, Mrs. Warren's Daughter",
          "text": "They made their way slowly to the great Palm House and thence up twisty iron steps to a nook like a tree refuge in New Guinea, among palm boles and extravagant aroid growths.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "1997 March 7, Jerry Sullivan, “Field & Street”, in Chicago Reader",
          "text": "Jack-in-the-pulpit is the only other aroid native to our part of the world.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Anton Ivancic, Vincent Lebot, The Genetics and Breeding of Taro, page 15",
          "text": "The majority of aroids are climbers and epiphytes of tropical rainforests.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Any plant of the family Araceae, found chiefly in the tropics."
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          "english": "plant of genus Arum",
          "word": "arum"
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        "(informal) Any plant of the family Araceae, found chiefly in the tropics."
      ],
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        {
          "english": "subfamily of Araceae",
          "word": "Aroideae"
        }
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "plant of the family Araceae",
          "word": "vehkakasvi"
        }
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  "word": "aroid"
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      "english": "plant of genus Arum",
      "word": "arum"
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  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
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      "english": "subfamily of Araceae",
      "word": "Aroideae"
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        },
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          "text": "The majority of aroids are climbers and epiphytes of tropical rainforests.",
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        "(informal) Any plant of the family Araceae, found chiefly in the tropics."
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      "sense": "plant of the family Araceae",
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