curcuma

English Thesaurus

1. tropical Asiatic perennial herbs (noun.plant)

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

member holonym	:	curcuma domestica, curcuma longa, turmeric,
definition	:	widely cultivated tropical plant of India having yellow flowers and a large aromatic deep yellow rhizome; source of a condiment and a yellow dye (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	family zingiberaceae, ginger family, zingiberaceae,
definition	:	a family of tropical monocotyledonous plants of order Musales (noun.plant)