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