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taro

nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈtæɹəʊ//
  • United States//ˈtæɹoʊ//
  • United States//ˈtɑɹoʊ//

Colocasia esculenta, raised as a food primarily for its corm, which distantly resembles potato.

noun

  1. 1

    Colocasia esculenta, raised as a food primarily for its corm, which distantly resembles potato.

  2. 2

    Any of several other species with similar corms and growth habit in Colocasia, Alocasia etc.

  3. 3

    Food from a taro plant.

Etymology

Borrowed from Māori taro. Doublet of kalo, from Hawaiian.

Forms

plural
taros
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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