Recent Examples on the WebThe aroid room brims with big houseplants, some reaching up to the ceiling, while the Sugar Room is stocked with coffee, cacao and fruit plants.—Lori Rackl, chicagotribune.com, 17 Oct. 2019 Another aroid species that has become a bona fide object of obsession for this new generation of collectors is the eminently photogenic variegated monstera, whose leaves are marbled with painterly splashes of white.—Gray Chapman, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2019
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Word History
Etymology
arum + -oid entry 2, after New Latin Aroideae, family or subfamily name
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