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Other rare plants include the sedge Machaerina rubiginosa, the aroid Cyrtosperma merkusii, and floating water plants such as Hydrocharis dubia and water chestnut (Trapa maximoviscii). ❋ Unknown (2008)

The Sumatra rain forests are home to some of the world's most charismatic flowering plants: Rafflesia arnoldii, which produces the largest flower in the world (up to 1 meters (m) wide), and Amorphophallus titanum, which stands more than 2 m tall and produces aroid flowers. ❋ Unknown (2008)

W. Pownall, the representative of the Australian Wine Company, explained before the Vegetable Products Commission in Victoria, a knowledge of cellar routine and cellar work would aroid the spoiling of much good wine. ❋ Unknown (2004)

He had been at pains, too, to smooth down the face of the rock for the reception of the unshaded daubs of terra-cotta, using peradventure the flat stone upon which he was wont to bruise the hot and biting roots of the aroid ❋ Unknown (2003)

In vegetation so dense it was sometimes impossible to find the ground, we collected wild begonias and salvias, delicate ferns and oxalis, boehmerias and at least three unknown plants, a new species of Dalbergia, a new Centropogon with a brilliant red corolla, and an exquisite aroid later named for Tim, Caladium plowmanii. ❋ Wade Davis (1996)

In Part III (38 mins., beginning the second videotape), he discusses corm-producing aroid species such as tanias, taros, eddoes and dasheens. ❋ Unknown (1996)

Chemical composition of nine edible aroid cultivars of Bangladesh. ❋ Unknown (1987)

The classical example of this is the treatment, before eating, of yams (Dioscorea spp.) and keladis, taros, cocoyams (aroid yams of the genera Colocasia, Xanthosoma, Amorphophallus), tapioca, cassava (Manihot esculenta Cranz), and the so-called cabbages of palms. ❋ Unknown (1979)

Recently a patented drug, "Tonga," has obtained considerable notoriety for curing obstinate neuralgia of the head and face -- this turning out to be the dried scraped stem of an aroid (or arum) called ❋ William Thomas Fernie (N/A)

We meet with organism of the form in the family of the Araceæ, or aroid plants. ❋ Various (N/A)

Why do these intensely acrid, aroid plants lose their acridity on being heated? ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

Commission in Victoria, a knowledge of cellar routine and cellar work would aroid the spoiling of much good wine. ❋ Philip E. Muskett (N/A)

House and thence up twisty iron steps to a nook like a tree refuge in New Guinea, among palm boles and extravagant aroid growths. ❋ Harry Hamilton Johnston (1892)

He had been at pains, too, to smooth down the face of the rock for the reception of the unshaded daubs of terra-cotta, using peradventure the flat stone upon which he was wont to bruise the hot and biting roots of the aroid (COLOCASIA MACRORRHIZA) which formed part of his diet. ❋ Unknown (1887)

At his talk, Darling will discuss the Aplosonyx leaf beetle which has, in the tropical forests of Vietnam, developed a way to evade the toxic, latex ooze of the giant-leafed aroid plant: they cut near-perfect circles in the leaf to drain out the defensive sap. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Report Abuse so will petoid and aroid play for the yankoids against the red sox? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Croat's newly discovered aroid, Anthurium centimillesimum, was found last year in an Ecuadorean rainforest. ❋ Unknown (2008)