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TACCA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Tacca mean?
• TACCA (noun)
The noun TACCA has 1 sense:
1. genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers
Familiarity information: 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 ("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 "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 ("Tacca" is a member of...):
family Taccaceae; Taccaceae (small family of tropical herbs)
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