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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of various evergreen tropical American plants of the genus Anthurium, grown as ornamentals for their attractive leaves and their showy, often red spathes.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A large genus of tropical American plants, natural order Araceæ, growing epiphytically on forest-trees.
  • noun [lowercase] A plant of the genus Anthurium.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Any of several tropical American evergreen plants, of the genus Anthurium, grown for their ornamental leaves and spathes

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun any of various tropical American plants cultivated for their showy foliage and flowers

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[New Latin Anthūrium, genus name : anth(o)– + Greek ourā, tail; see ors- in Indo-European roots.]

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