Taro synonyms

tär'ō, tăr'ō

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taro root
tropical starchy tuberous root
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cocoyam
New cocoyam: Xanthosoma, particularly Xanthosoma sagittifolium, or the edible root of that plant; malanga.
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dasheen
Old cocoyam; the edible starchy yellow tuber of the taro plant.
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edda
The Prose (or Younger) EddaProse EddaYounger Edda (c. 1230), a summary of Norse mythology with two treatises on skaldic poetry, attributed to Snorri Sturluson
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taro plant
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
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dalo
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
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colocasia-esculenta
A taxonomic species within the genus Colocasia — the cocoyams.
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eddo
A plant, a variety of taro, having edible starchy tubers.
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lo-i (related)
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yam (related)
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bromelia (related)
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Taro Sentence Examples

  • He stated that the Moorhen frequented swamps, ponds, streams and taro patches - much the same as today.

  • Miss Taro deliberately gives Bond the wrong house number because he 's never meant to arrive.

  • Sugar-cane, indigo, hemp, peanuts, potatoes of different varieties, yam, taro, beans, sesamum, pumpkins and vegetables of all kinds are also grown.

  • The natives live very largely on vegetable food, among the most important plants which supply them being the taro, yam, banana, bread-fruit, arrow-root, pandanus and coco-nut.

  • The letters r and t have been discarded in favour of 1 and k, as expressing more accurately the native pronunciation, so that, for example, taro, the former name of the Colocasia plant, is now kalo.

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