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Aglaonema

noun

climbing herbs of southeastern Asia having thick fleshy oblong leaves and naked unisexual flowers: Chinese evergreen

• Syn: ↑genus Aglaonema

• Hypernyms: ↑monocot genus, ↑liliopsid genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Araceae, ↑family Araceae, ↑arum family

• Member Meronyms: ↑Chinese evergreen, ↑Japanese leaf, ↑Aglaonema modestum

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\\ˌaglēōˈnēmə\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Greek aglaos shining, bright + New Latin -nema

: a genus of Indo-Malayan climbing herbs of the arum family having thick fleshy oblong leaves and naked unisexual flowers on a spadix shorter than the spathe — see chinese evergreen

Useful english dictionary. 2012.