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GENUS TACCA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Tacca mean?
• GENUS TACCA (noun)
The noun GENUS TACCA has 1 sense:
1. genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers
Familiarity information: GENUS TACCA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Tacca; Tacca
Hypernyms ("genus Tacca" is a kind of...):
liliid monocot genus (genus of monocotyledonous plants comprising mostly herbs having usually petaloid sepals and petals and compound pistils)
Meronyms (members of "genus Tacca"):
Indian arrowroot; pia; Tacca leontopetaloides; Tacca pinnatifida (perennial herb of East Indies to Polynesia and Australia; cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch)
Holonyms ("genus Tacca" is a member of...):
family Taccaceae; Taccaceae (small family of tropical herbs)
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