arum vs malanga

malanga vs arum

arum and malanga both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
arum	Yes	No	No	No
malanga	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, malanga is a hyponym of arum; that is, malanga is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than arum:

arum: any plant of the family Araceae; have small flowers massed on a spadix surrounded by a large spathe
malanga: tropical American aroid having edible tubers that are cooked and eaten like yams or potatoes

Other hyponyms of arum include Arum maculatum, cuckoopint, jack-in-the-pulpit, lords-and-ladies, Arum palaestinum, black calla, alocasia, elephant's ear, elephant ear, amorphophallus, Amorphophallus campanulatus, Amorphophallus paeonifolius, elephant yam, pungapung, telingo potato, Amorphophallus rivieri, devil's tongue, snake palm, umbrella arum, Amorphophallus titanum, krubi, titan arum, Arisaema atrorubens, Arisaema triphyllum, Indian turnip, jack-in-the-pulpit, wake-robin, Arisaema dracontium, green dragon, Arisarum vulgare, friar's-cowl, caladium, Colocasia esculenta, dalo, dasheen, taro, taro plant, Dieffenbachia sequine, dumb cane, mother-in-law's tongue, mother-in-law plant, dracontium, Dracunculus vulgaris, dragon arum, green dragon, nephthytis, spoonflower, tannia, Xanthosoma atrovirens, Xanthosoma sagittifolium, yautia.

arum (noun)	malanga (noun)
any plant of the family Araceae; have small flowers massed on a spadix surrounded by a large spathe	tropical American aroid having edible tubers that are cooked and eaten like yams or potatoes
starch resembling sago that is obtained from cuckoopint root

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