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WATER ARUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does water arum mean? 

WATER ARUM (noun)
  The noun WATER ARUM has 1 sense:

1. plant of wetlands and bogs of temperate regions having small greenish flowers partly enclosed in a white spathe and red berriesplay

  Familiarity information: WATER ARUM used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


WATER ARUM (noun)


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Meaning:

Plant of wetlands and bogs of temperate regions having small greenish flowers partly enclosed in a white spathe and red berries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Calla palustris; water arum; wild calla

Hypernyms ("water arum" is a kind of...):

bog plant; marsh plant; swamp plant (a semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc; possibly heath)

Holonyms ("water arum" is a member of...):

Calla; genus Calla (water arum)


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