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Taro  n.  (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.





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"Taro" Quotes from Famous Books



... products: bananas, coconuts, vegetables, taro, breadfruit, yams, copra, pineapples, papayas; ...
— The 2002 CIA World Factbook • US Government
 
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... products: coconuts, passion fruit, honey, limes, taro, yams, cassava (tapioca), sweet potatoes; pigs, poultry, ...
— The 1997 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
 
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... that of a menial attendant of one of the larger yashiki (nobleman's mansion). Scars of burns on his hands and arms, patches of rice flour and bran, showed that he was a cook. His eye was severe and his manner abrupt as he rebuked Densuke. "An idle fellow! This Taro[u]bei never fails to come across Densuke as an idler, or on the way to Asakusa with the worthy wife. Is he fit for nothing?" Densuke was a mild man. To this man with a grievance his answer was soft. Besides he had no liking for the cook's knife stuck ...
— The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari - Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) • James S. De Benneville
 
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Words linked to "Taro" :   aroid, eddo, giant taro, root, dasheen, genus Colocasia, taro root, Colocasia, dalo



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