परिवार के किसी भी पौधे araceaea; एक बड़े स्पैथ से घिरे एक स्पैडिक्स पर छोटे फूल बड़े होते हैं

aroids's Usage Examples:

tree ferns, palms, bamboos and aroids.

Exotic and jungle plants including cannas, gingers, bananas, tree ferns, palms, bamboos and aroids.

Tubers are also sometimes formed on aerial branches, as in some Aroids, Begonias, 'c. The production of small green tubers on the haulm, in the axils of the leaves of the potato, is not very unfrequent, and affords an interesting proof of the true morphological nature of the underground shoots and tubers.

The seven series of Monocotyledons represent a sequence beginning with the most complicated epigynous orders, such as Orchideae and Scitamineae, and passing through the petaloid hypogynous orders (series Coronarieae) of which Liliaceae is the representative to Juncaceae and the palms (series Calycinae) where the perianth Ioses its petaloid character and thence to the Aroids, screw-pines and albuminous Dicotyledons the cotyledons act as the absorbents of the reserve-food of the seed and are commonly brought above ground (epigeal), either withdrawn from the seed-coat or carrying it upon them, and then they serve as the first green organs of the plant.

Such a transfer has been described in various Aroids, Rohdea japonica (Liliaceae), and other plants.

A good series of tropical aroids is to be seen in the aroid house at Kew.

male flowers each of one (2, 3, 4 enlarged.) is regarded as representing a very reduced type nearly allied to the Aroids.

The country is exceedingly rich in Aroids, many of which are epiphytic, festooning the trunks of tall trees with a magnificent drapery of abundant foliage.

Aroids, of which the tribes are not restricted in their distribution, have two large endemic genera, Philodendron and Anthurium.

aroids's Meaning':

any plant of the family Araceae; have small flowers massed on a spadix surrounded by a large spathe