NOUN | plant | Curcuma, genus Curcuma | tropical Asiatic perennial herbs |
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Meaning | Tropical Asiatic perennial herbs. | |
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Synonym | genus Curcuma | |
Member of | Zingiberaceae, family Zingiberaceae, ginger family | A family of tropical monocotyledonous plants of order Musales |
Members | turmeric, Curcuma longa, Curcuma domestica | Widely cultivated tropical plant of India having yellow flowers and a large aromatic deep yellow rhizome |
Broader | monocot genus, liliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed |
Spanish | curcuma, genus curcuma | |
Catalan | curcuma, genus curcuma |
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