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maranta /məˈrantə /noun1A tropical American plant of a genus which includes the prayer plant and the arrowroot.- Genus Maranta, family Marantaceae.
Officially known as marantas, prayer plants are so called because the leaves of some species fold upwards, as if in supplication to the gods....- Scheffleras and marantas also revel in warmer, humid conditions.
- The maranta and calathea are other such plants.
Origin Modern Latin, named after Bartollomeo Maranta, 16th-century Italian herbalist. |