Arales

plural noun

Ara·​les

əˈrāˌlēz

: an order of monocotyledonous woody or herbaceous plants that are usually sympodial with cyclic flowers on a spadix see araceae, lemnaceae

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from Arum genus of araceous plants + -ales

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