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Taro
Ta′ro
,Noun.
[From the Polynesian name.]
(Bot.)
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. Definition 2024
Taro
taro
taro
English
Noun
taro (usually uncountable, plural taros)
- Colocasia esculenta, raised as a food primarily for its corm, which distantly resembles potato.
- Any of several other species with similar corms and growth habit in Colocasia, Alocasia etc.
- Food from a taro plant.
Synonyms
- (Colocasia esculenta): colocasia, elephant ears
- (similar plants):
- (edible portion): dasheen
Hyponyms
- (similar plants): giant taro, Alocasia and species, especially Alocasia macrorrhizos; swamp taro, Cyrtosperma merkusii; Xanthosoma sagittifolium
Derived terms
- Chinese taro, chinese taro
- giant swamp taro
- giant taro
- metallic taro
- swamp taro
- taro flying frog
- taro-patch fiddle
Translations
Colocasia esculenta
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food from the taro plant
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See also
Anagrams
Portuguese
Noun
taro m (plural taros)
- taro (Colocasia esculenta)
- taro (the edible corm of the taro plant)
Tok Pisin
Etymology
Noun
taro
- The taro plant.
- 1995, John Verhaar, Toward a reference grammar of Tok Pisin: an experiment in corpus linguistics, ISBN 0-8248-1672-2, page 433:
- Mekim olsem pinis, orait tupela i planim taro na banana, na kumu, painap, kon, tomato, na kaukau tu.
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Welsh
Pronunciation
- (North Wales) IPA(key): [ˈtarɔ]
- (South Wales) IPA(key): [ˈtɑːrɔ]
Verb
taro (stem traw-)
Conjugation
Conjugation (literary)
| singular | plural | impersonal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | first | second | third | |||
| present/future | trawaf | trewi | tery, trawa | trawn | trewch | trawant | trewir | |
| imperfect/conditional | trawn | trawit | trawai | trawem | trawech | trawent | trewid | |
| preterite | trewais | trewaist | trawodd | trawsom | trawsoch | trawsant | trawyd | |
| pluperfect | trawswn | trawsit | trawsai | trawsem | trawsech | trawsent | trawsid, trewsid | |
| subjunctive | trawyf | trewych | trawo | trawom | trawoch | trawont | trawer | |
| imperative | — | taro | trawed | trawn | trewch | trawent | trawer | |
| verbal noun | taro | |||||||
| verbal adjectives | trawedig trawadwy |
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Mutation
| Welsh mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
| taro | daro | nharo | tharo |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||