Look up: Taro

1. Taro
   a tuberous vegetable used to make poi
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2. Taro
   (Hawaiian) a tuberous vegetable used to make poi
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3. taro
   [n] - edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants 2. [n] - 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 3. [n] - tropical starchy tuberous root
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4. Taro
   Ta'ro noun [ From the Polynesian name.] (Botany) A name for several aroid plants ( Colocasia antiquorum , var. esculenta , Colocasia macrorhiza , etc.), and their rootstocks. They have large ovate-sagittate leaves and large fle...
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5. taro
   <botany> 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 rootstocks, which are cooked and used for food in tropical countries. ... Origin: From the Polynesian name. ...
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6. taro
   taro root noun tropical starchy tuberous root
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7. taro
   taro plant noun 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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8. taro
   dasheen 2 eddo noun edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants
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9. Taro
   • (n.) 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 rootstocks, which are cooked and used for food in tropical countries.
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10. Taro
    (from the article `Parma and Piacenza, Duchy of`) ...(the future Charles III of Spain). Except for one brief interruption, the Spanish Bourbons controlled the duchy until 1808, when it was formally ...
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11. taro
    herbaceous plant of the family Araceae. Probably native to southeastern Asia, whence it has spread to the Pacific islands, it has become a staple ... [5 related articles]
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12. Taro
    Taro is a Japanese boy name. The meaning of the name is `first-born male ` Where is it used? The name Taro is mainly used In Japanese. The name Taro doesn`t appear In the US top 1000 most common names over de last 128 years. The name Taro seems to be unique!
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13. taro
    taro: see arum.
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14. Taro
    Taro, also known as Tara or Kalo (Colocasia antiquorum) is a herb of the arum family, natural order Araceae, cultivated in Pacific islands and the Caribbean for its starchy, edible root and leaves (callaloo). Taro has a large tuberous rootstock from which large oval, heart-shaped leaves spring direc...
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15. taro
    Plant belonging to the arum family, native to tropical Asia; the tubers (underground stems) are edible and are the source of Polynesian poi (a fermented food). (Colocasia esculenta, family Araceae.)
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16. taro
    vegetable grown in Hawaii (as well as in Africa and Asia)
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17. Taro
    ) is a common name for the corms and tubers of several plants in the family Araceae (see Taro (disambiguation)). Of these, Colocasia esculenta is the most widely cultivated, and is the subject of this article. More specifically, this article describes the `dasheen` form of taro; another varie...
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18. Taro
    (department) `Taro` is the name of a département of the First French Empire in present Italy. It was named after the Taro river. It was formed in 1808, when the states of Parma and Piacenza were annexed by France. Its capital was Parma. It was divided into the following arrondissements: It...
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19. Taro
    (river) The `Taro` (Latin Tarus) is a 126 km-long river in northern Italy, tributary to the Po River. It flows almost entirely in the province of Parma, west of the city Parma. The Taro flows into the Po River north of Parma. The Taro abbr=on-->; the most important of its affluents are...
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20. Taro
    (given name) `Tarō` (太郎) is a stand-alone Japanese given name or a common name suffix for males (literally “eldest son”). People named `Tarō` include: People with `-tarō` as a name suffix: Characters: See also:
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