Definition of Marantaceae

1. Noun. Tropical perennial herbs with usually starchy rhizomes.

Exact synonyms: Arrowroot Family, Family Marantaceae
Generic synonyms: Liliopsid Family, Monocot Family
Group relationships: Musales, Order Musales
Member holonyms: Genus Maranta

Lexicographical Neighbors of Marantaceae

Maquisard
Mar.
Mara
Maracaibo
Maracan language
Maracay
Maraco
Maradonaesque
Maragoli
Marah
Maranhão
Maranon's sign
Maranon's syndrome
Marans
Maranta arundinaceae
Marantaceae (current term)
Marasmius
Marasmius oreades
Marat
Maratha
Marathas
Marathi
Marathons
Marattia
Marattia salicina
Marattiaceae
Marattiales
Marburg disease
Marburg hemorrhagic fever
Marburg virus

Literary usage of Marantaceae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1896)
"In fields and meadows, Newfoundland to British Columbia, Virginia, Kansas and Colorado. May-Aug. Family 26. Marantaceae Lindl. Nat. Syst. 1830. ..."

2. Scientific and Applied Pharmacognosy: Intended for the Use of Students in by Henry Kraemer (1915)
"Marantaceae). The plant (Fig. 55) is indigenous to the West Indies and northern part of South America and is now extensively cultivated in nearly all ..."

3. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1843)
"But in Marantaceae the fertile stamen is on one side of the labellum, occupying the place of one of the lateral sterile stamens of ..."

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