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corchorus
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun corchorus has 2 senses
- corchorus(n = noun.plant) Array - any of various plants of the genus Corchorus having large leaves and cymose clusters of yellow flowers; a source of jute; Array is a member of corchorus, genus corchorus
- corchorus(n = noun.plant) genus corchorus - widely distributed genus of tropical herbs or subshrubs; especially Asia; Array is a kind of dilleniid dicot genus
is a kind of subshrub, suffrutex
is a member of family tiliaceae, linden family, tiliaceae
CIDE DICTIONARY
corchorus, n. [Nl., fr. L. corchorus a poor kind of pulse, Gr. ko`rchoros a wild plant of bitter taste.].
The common name of the Kerria Japonica or Japan globeflower, a yellow-flowered, perennial, rosaceous plant, seen in old-fashioned gardens. [1913 Webster]
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