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marantaceae
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun marantaceae has 1 sense
- marantaceae(n = noun.plant) arrowroot family, family marantaceae - tropical perennial herbs with usually starchy rhizomes; Array is a kind of liliopsid family, monocot family
is a member of musales, order musales
CIDE DICTIONARY
marantaceae, prop. n.
A natural family of tropical perennial herbs with usually starchy rhizomes, including the arrowroot; the arrowroot family. [WordNet 1.5]
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