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taro root

n. tropical starchy tuberous root [syn: taro, cocoyam, dasheen, edda]

Usage examples of "taro root".

Our main course will be Tongan lobster in a coconut cream sauce over steamed taro root.

The first solar tower contained a storeroom with bags of rice and taro root and some bundles of sugar cane, which were used to pay the temple servants, and at the moment this was their only source of food.

The taro root looks like a thick, or, if you please, a corpulent sweet potato, in shape, but is of a light purple color when boiled.

In addition to the puaa, there was a mneke, a small bowl, of poi-taro root pounded to a paste.