Sentence examples for Araceae from high-quality English sources.

• Taro, (Colocasia esculenta), also called eddo or dasheen, herbaceous plant of the family Araceae.

• Like most plants in the Araceae family, its favourite spot will get some sun, some shade, and it will need watering about once a week.

• This system functions at a high rate in the flowers of a range of species, including the arum lily (Araceae).

• Another distinctive modification for food storage is the corm, a short, upright shoot system with a thick, hard stem covered with thin membranous scale leaves as in jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum; Araceae) and gladiolus (Gladiolus; Iridaceae).

• The size range alone is quite remarkable, from the smallest individual flowering plant, probably the watermeal (Wolffia; Araceae) at less than 2 millimetres (0.08 inch), to one of the tallest angiosperms, Australia’s mountain ash tree (Eucalyptus regnans; Myrtaceae) at about 100 metres (330 feet).

• Many crops are native to Southeast Asia, including black pepper, sugarcane (Saccharum species), banana (Musa species), nutmeg (Myristica fragrans), taro (Araceae species), arrowroot (Maranta species), coconut (Arecaceae species), clove (Syzygium aromaticum), yam (Dioscorea species), and citrus fruits.