Taro

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A widely cultivated tropical Asian plant (Colocasia esculenta) having broad peltate leaves and a large starchy edible tuber.
  • n. The tuber of this plant.
  • n. A similar plant of the genus Xanthosoma.
  • n. The large starchy tuber of this plant. Also called cocoyam.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Colocasia esculenta, raised as a food primarily for its corm, which distantly resembles potato.
  • n. Any of several other species with similar corms and growth habit in Colocasia, Alocasia etc.
  • n. Food from a taro plant.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A name for several aroid plants (Colocasia antiquorum, var. esculenta, Colocasia macrorhiza, etc.), and their rootstocks. They have large ovate-sagittate leaves and large fleshy tuberous rootstocks, which are cooked and used for food in tropical countries.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A gold coin of the Arab emirs of Sicily of the tenth and eleventh centuries; of the Lombard dukes of the seventh century; of the Two Sicilies under Norman rule in the fourth century; of Amalfi in the eleventh century.
  • n. A food-plant, Colocasia antiquorum, especially the variety esculenta, a native of India, but widely cultivated in the warmer parts of the globe, particularly in the Pacific islands.
  • n. A money of account and coin of silver, and also of copper, formerly used in Malta under the Grand Masters.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. herb of the Pacific islands grown throughout the tropics for its edible root and in temperate areas as an ornamental for its large glossy leaves
  • n. edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants
  • n. tropical starchy tuberous root
  • Hypernym
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    Arum    aroid    root    root vegetable   
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