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Webster 1913 Edition
Taro
Ta′ro
,Noun.
[From the Polynesian name.]
(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.