aloe
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1. succulent plants having rosettes of leaves usually with fiber like hemp and spikes of showy flowers; found chiefly in Africa (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | succulent, |
| definition | : | a plant adapted to arid conditions and characterized by fleshy water-storing tissues that act as water reservoirs (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | aloe ferox, cape aloe, |
| definition | : | much-branched South African plant with reddish prickly succulent leaves (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | aloe vera, burn plant, |
| definition | : | very short-stemmed plant with thick leaves with soothing mucilaginous juice; leaves develop spiny margins with maturity; native to Mediterranean region; grown widely in tropics and as houseplants (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | genus aloe, |
| definition | : | large genus of chiefly African liliaceous plants; in some systems placed in family Aloeaceae (noun.plant) |
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