aroid

noun

1. (informal)Any plant of the family Araceae, found chiefly in the tropics.

   “They made their way slowly to the great Palm House and thence up twisty iron steps to a nook like a tree refuge in New Guinea, among palm boles and extravagant aroid growths.”

   “Jack-in-the-pulpit is the only other aroid native to our part of the world.”

   “The majority of aroids are climbers and epiphytes of tropical rainforests.”