genus alocasia

English Thesaurus

1. tropical Asiatic herbs similar to Colocasia but distinguished by a large sterile spadix (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	:	alocasia, elephant ear, elephant's ear,
definition	:	any plant of the genus Alocasia having large showy basal leaves and boat-shaped spathe and reddish berries (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	araceae, arum family, family araceae,
definition	:	anthurium; calla lily; jack-in-the-pulpit; philodendron (noun.plant)