family marantaceae

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   tropical perennial herbs with usually starchy rhizomes

   SynonymsMarantaceaearrowroot family

   Broadermonocot family

   Part ofMusales

Questions about family marantaceae

What does family marantaceae mean?

family marantaceae means "tropical perennial herbs with usually starchy rhizomes".

What is another word for family marantaceae?

Close synonyms include Marantaceae, arrowroot family. 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 family marantaceae a common word?

family marantaceae 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.