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maranta

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
maranta /məˈrantə/

▶noun

1 a tropical American plant of a genus which includes the prayer plant and the arrowroot. [Genus Maranta.]

2 a calathea (plant).

– origin mod. L., named after a 16th-cent. Italian herbalist, Bartollomeo Maranta.

'maranta' also found in these Oxford entries:

arrowroot - prayer plant

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