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taro
/ˈtæɹoʊ/
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What does taro mean?
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.
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proper noun
- A river and valley in Italy.
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A fungal plant disease severely damaged the taro crop, the primary food and export crop.
Those women easily learned to put up with shark and taro and dog for a diet when the other things were so expensive.
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In an analogous manner, the particle mna added to the Tamanac verb, not at the end, but by intercalation, gives it a negative sense, as taro, to say, taromnar, not to say.
This outer circle enclosed a second of similar shape but lesser diameter, within which again were taro elliptic circles, the outer consisting of ten or twelve sandstone blocks some twenty-two feet high, standing in pairs, each pair united by a slab laid horizontally across, so as to form a trilithon.