Crossword clues for dasheen
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dasheen \Dash`een"\ (d[a^]sh`[=e]n"), n.
A tropical aroid (of the genus Caladium, syn. Colocasia) having an edible farinaceous root. It is related to the taro and to the tanier, but is much superior to it in quality and is as easily cooked as the potato. It is a staple food plant of the tropics, being prepared like potatoes, and has been introduced into the Southern United States.
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a 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.
Syn: taro, taro plant, dalo, Colocasia esculenta.
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the edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
Syn: taro, cocoyam, eddo.
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a tropical starchy tuberous root.
Syn: taro, taro root, cocoyam, edda.
Wiktionary
n. old cocoyam; the edible starchy yellow tuber of the taro plant.
WordNet
n. edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants [syn: taro, cocoyam, eddo]
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 [syn: taro, taro plant, dalo, Colocasia esculenta]
tropical starchy tuberous root [syn: taro, taro root, cocoyam, edda]
Usage examples of "dasheen".
YAXA WEREN'T VERY welcome in Dasheen, not since the days of the wars, when peaceful, agrarian Dasheen had been dragged into the Northern campaign by his presence and the Yaxa's insistence.
From the males' view, the only worm in Dasheen's apple was the fact that Dasheen bulls lacked the ability to digest calcium directly, causing a deficiency that could only be counteracted by the milk of the females.
Unlike his native Dasheen, which used a standard hexagonal symbol, Yaxa used an ideogram which he mistook at first for a pair of stylized wings.
As a Dasheen bull he depended on milk manufactured by the female for deficiencies in his own system.
What he needed were people to do the hard stuff, people he could trust as he could trust his Dasheen cows back home.
Yulin walked down the stairs carefully, still dizzy, still nauseous for want of Dasheen milk.
You're in Dasheen, which is both the country and the name of your new people.
One time I remember somebody saying in some class that there were only seven hundred fifty thousand Dasheen and seventy-five thousand bulls.
There's a small bureaucracy to keep things together, and we meet in emergencies or twice a year for a few days in a small town named Tahlur in the center of Dasheen, where the training schools and the Zone Gate are.
Jaq to the southeast—volcanic and hot as hell, too hot for a Dasheen to survive.
They went in a comfortable coach pulled by six Dasheen cows from Hocal's herd, and they made better speed than Yulin would have believed.
Unlike the others he'd met on the Well World—the Dasheen, Ortega, the Ambreza, even the plant-creature—this one was different.
Twenty could make a Dasheen so convincing you would be unable to tell the difference.
With Lamotien infiltration and technology, Yaxa flight and trained warriors, aided, perhaps, by bases and personnel in Dasheen, we can take the Qasada and the Xoda, our two major problems.
That puts us in Gedemondas, a hex in which we Yaxa will be hard-pressed to operate, but one in which a Lamotien-supplemented Dasheen force will be highly effective.