tacca

English Thesaurus

1. genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	liliid monocot genus,
definition	:	genus of monocotyledonous plants comprising mostly herbs having usually petaloid sepals and petals and compound pistils (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	indian arrowroot, pia, tacca leontopetaloides, tacca pinnatifida,
definition	:	perennial herb of East Indies to Polynesia and Australia; cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	family taccaceae, taccaceae,
definition	:	small family of tropical herbs (noun.plant)