any plant of the genus Aralia of trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants. The greenhouse and house plant generally known as aralia is Schefflera elegantissima of a related genus, grown for its decorative evergreen foliage: family Araliaceae
Word origin
New Latin, of uncertain origin
aralia in American English
(əˈreiliə, əˈreiljə)
noun
any of various plants of the genus Aralia and related genera, several of which are cultivated as houseplants or have been usedmedicinally
Word origin
[‹ NL (Linnaeus), of unexplained orig.]
Examples of 'aralia' in a sentence
aralia
Aralia elatais fat and spiny and it suckers to make sinister colonies.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Mahonias are a plant that with fatsia, camellia, skimmia, chaenomeles and aralia are sometimes and rather confusingly called a 'japonica'.