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Aroid vs Laroid - What's the difference?

aroid | laroid |

As a noun aroid

is any plant of the family Araceae, found chiefly in the tropics.

As an adjective laroid is

of, pertaining to, or having characteristics of the gull family, Laridae.

aroid

English

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.

    Hyponyms

    * arum

    See also

    * Aroideae (subfamily of Araceae)

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    laroid

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (zoology) Of, pertaining to, or having characteristics of the gull family, Laridae.
  • * 1888 , Friedrich von Hellwald, The Riverside Natural History , Volume 4, page 83,
    • We now come to a small group of Laroid birds, remarkable for their curious bill, the lower mandible of which has been compared with a "short-handled pitchfork," and for their long wings, viz., the skimmers, the Rhynchopinæ, not less remarkable for their peculiar habits and their geographical distribution, parts of America, Asia, and Africa being inhabited by one species each.
  • * 1899 , The Ibis , page 406,
    • The whole form of the skull is, indeed, essentially Laroid , and quite unlike that of the Kingfishers;