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arum
/ ˈɛərəm /
noun
- 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
- arum lilyanother name for calla
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Word History and Origins
Origin of arum1
C16: from Latin, a variant of aros wake-robin, from Greek aron
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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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