taro

Meaning

Noun

• 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.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• giant taro, Alocasia and species, especially Alocasia macrorrhizos (species); swamp taro, Cyrtosperma merkusii (species); Xanthosoma sagittifolium

Origin

• Borrowed from Maori taro. kalo, from Hawaiian.