marantaceae

English Thesaurus

1. tropical perennial herbs with usually starchy rhizomes (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	liliopsid family, monocot family,
definition	:	family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	genus maranta,
definition	:	herbs of tropical America (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	musales, order musales,
definition	:	tropical plants (noun.plant)