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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.

Definition 2024


tarõ

tarõ

See also: taro, Taro, taró, tarò, tarô, Tarō, and țaro

Võro

Noun

tarõ (genitive tarõ, partitive tarrõ)

  1. room
  2. farmhouse

Inflection