noun
climbing herbs of southeastern Asia having thick fleshy oblong leaves and naked unisexual flowers: Chinese evergreen
• Syn: ↑genus Aglaonema
• Hypernyms: ↑monocot genus, ↑liliopsid genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Araceae, ↑family Araceae, ↑arum family
• Member Meronyms: ↑Chinese evergreen, ↑Japanese leaf, ↑Aglaonema modestum
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\\ˌaglēōˈnēmə\ nounUsage: capitalized
: a genus of Indo-Malayan climbing herbs of the arum family having thick fleshy oblong leaves and naked unisexual flowers on a spadix shorter than the spathe — see chinese evergreen
Useful english dictionary. 2012.