Ariid vs Aroid - What's the difference?
ariid | aroid |
(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 nouns the difference between ariid and aroid
is that ariid is any member of the Ariidae while aroid is any plant of the family Araceae, found chiefly in the tropics.aroid
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- The majority of aroids are climbers and epiphytes of tropical rainforests.