Arid vs Aroid - What's the difference?
arid | aroid |
Very dry.
Describing a very dry climate. Typically defined as less than 25 cm or 10 inches of rainfall annually.
Devoid of value.
(informal) Any plant of the family Araceae, found chiefly in the tropics.
* {{quote-book, year=1920, author=Sir Harry Johnston, title=Mrs. Warren's Daughter, chapter=, edition=
, passage=They made their way slowly to the great Palm House and thence up twisty iron steps to a nook like a tree refuge in New Guinea, among palm boles and extravagant aroid growths. }}
* {{quote-news, year=1997, date=March 7, author=Jerry Sullivan, title=Field & Street, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=Jack-in-the-pulpit is the only other aroid native to our part of the world.}}
* 2000 , Anton Ivancic, Vincent Lebot, The Genetics and Breeding of Taro ,
As an adjective arid
is very dry.As a noun aroid is
any plant of the family Araceae, found chiefly in the tropics.arid
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(en-adj) (wikipedia arid)Quotations
* 1956 — , The City and the Stars , p 37 *: Such occupations might have seemed arid to those who did not possess the intellect to appreciate their subtleties.See also
* semiaridAnagrams
* * * ----aroid
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page 15,
- The majority of aroids are climbers and epiphytes of tropical rainforests.