aroid

1. 1.

   relating to a plant of the family Araceae

   Synonymsaraceous

   botany

Other forms of aroid

plural

aroids·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about aroid

What does aroid mean?

aroid means "any plant of the family Araceae; have small flowers massed on a spadix surrounded by a large spathe". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in aroid?

aroid has 2 syllables: a-roid. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for aroid?

Close synonyms include arum, araceous. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is aroid a common word?

aroid is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.