Taro vs. Eddo
Taronoun
Colocasia esculenta, raised as a food primarily for its corm, which distantly resembles potato.
Taronoun
Any of several other species with similar corms and growth habit in Colocasia, Alocasia etc.
Taronoun
Food from a taro plant.
Taronoun
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.
Taronoun
edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants
Taronoun
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
Taronoun
tropical starchy tuberous root
Taronoun
a tropical Asian plant of the arum family which has edible starchy corms and edible fleshy leaves, especially a variety with a large central corm grown as a staple in the Pacific.
Taronoun
the corm of the taro plant.
Taro
Colocasia esculenta is a tropical plant grown primarily for its edible corms, a root vegetable most commonly known as taro (), kalo, dasheen, madhumbe, marope, magogoya, patra or godere (see §Names and etymology for an extensive list). It is the most widely cultivated species of several plants in the family Araceae that are used as vegetables for their corms, leaves, and petioles.
Eddonoun
A plant (Colocasia esculenta, but often identified as Colocasia antiquorum, among numerous other synonyms), which is usually considered a variety of C. esculenta, with edible starchy tubers.
Eddonoun
The tubers of this plant.
Eddonoun
edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants
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