Aglaonema

noun

Ag·​lao·​ne·​ma

ˌa-glē-ō-ˈnē-mə

: a genus of Indo-Malayan climbing herbs of the arum family having thick fleshy oblong leaves and naked unisexual flowers on a spadix shorter than the spathe see chinese evergreen

Word History

Etymology

borrowed from New Latin, from Greek aglaós "splendid, beautiful, bright" + New Latin -nema -nema

First Known Use

1834, in the meaning defined above

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