Noun

(en noun)

(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= citation

, 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 citation

, 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 , page 15,

The majority of aroids are climbers and epiphytes of tropical rainforests.

Noun

(en noun)

A robot, especially one made with some physical resemblance to a human.

* {{quote-magazine

, year = 1952 , date = July , first = Mari , last = Wolf , authorlink = , title = Robots of the World! Arise! , url = http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31611 , magazine = , volume = 1 , issue = 3 , page = 76 , passage = It's crazy. They're swarming all over Carron City. They're stopping robots in the streets—household Robs, commercial Droids , all of them. They just look at them, and then the others quit work and start off with them. }}

* 1976 , , Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker , New York: Ballantine Books, p 77:

“These aren’t the ’droids you’re looking for,” Kenobi told him pleasantly.

* 1995 , J. D. Robb, Glory in Death , page 39:

The bartender was a droid , as most were, but she doubted this one had been programmed to listen cheerfully to customers' hard luck stories.