What is "yautia"

Yautia \Yau*ti"a\, n. [Native name in the Antilles.] In Puerto Rico, any of several araceous plants or their starchy edible roots, which are cooked and eaten like yams or potatoes, as the taro.

n. An edible plant commonly found in the Caribbean: ''Xanthosoma sagittifolium'', new cocoyam.

n. tropical American aroid having edible tubers that are cooked and eaten like yams or potatoes [syn: tannia, spoonflower, malanga, Xanthosoma sagittifolium, Xanthosoma atrovirens]