elephant's ear
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1. tropical South American tree having a wide-spreading crown of bipinnate leaves and coiled ear-shaped fruits; grown for shade and ornament as well as valuable timber (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | tree, |
| definition | : | a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | enterolobium, genus enterolobium, |
| definition | : | small genus of tropical American timber trees closely allied to genus Albizia (noun.plant) |
2. any plant of the genus Alocasia having large showy basal leaves and boat-shaped spathe and reddish berries (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | aroid, arum, |
| definition | : | any plant of the family Araceae; have small flowers massed on a spadix surrounded by a large spathe (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | alocasia macrorrhiza, giant taro, |
| definition | : | large evergreen with extremely large erect or spreading leaves; cultivated widely in tropics for its edible rhizome and shoots; used in wet warm regions as a stately ornamental (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | genus alocasia, |
| definition | : | tropical Asiatic herbs similar to Colocasia but distinguished by a large sterile spadix (noun.plant) |
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