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.