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Definitions: Taro |
TaroNoun1. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants. 2. 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. 3. Tropical starchy tuberous root. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Taro" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a first born son". |
Date "taro" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references) |
Note: Taro \Ta"ro\, noun. [From the Polynesian name.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: TaroSynonyms: cocoyam (n), dalo (n), dasheen (n), edda (n), eddo (n), taro plant (n), taro root (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Taro (possibly a Maori word, it is kalo in Hawaiian) is a tropical plant (Colocasia esculenta in the Family Araceae) grown for its edible stem or corm and leaves. Flowers are also eaten. The word kalo refers to the corm. Taro is closely related to elephant ear and Caladium, plants commonly grown as ornamentals.
Taro is a traditional staple in many tropical areas of the world, and is the base for poi in Hawai'i. The plant is actually inedible if ingested raw because of raphids in the plant cells. Severe gastrointestinal distress can occur unless the plant is properly processed first.
Taro is grown in pondfields called lo'i (in Hawaiian). The picture shows several small lo'i in Maunawili Valley on O'ahu. The ditch on the left in the picture is called an 'auwai and supplies diverted stream water to the lo'i or pondfields. Cool flowing water yields the best crop. Some of this taro in the foreground has been harvested and the caretakers are preparing to replant the huli stacked at their feet. These are the top portion of the corm with a short piece of bladeless leafstem.
Taro is also used by some Taiwanese as an affectionate nickname for the Chinese mainlanders.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Taro."
Crosswords: Taro |
| English words defined with "taro": cocoyam, Colocasia ♦ dasheen ♦ eddo, Eddoes ♦ genus Colocasia, giant taro ♦ poi ♦ taro plant, taro root. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "taro": COLOCASIA ANTIQUORUM ♦ Rascadera, roots and tubers production. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Taro" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (Taro), Swedish (Taro), Welsh (beat, hit, hot, knock, smite, stick, strike, suit, tap). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Urashima Taro no koei (1946) Taro Roots (2000) Taro! Tokyo makai taisen (1991) Maa Khodal Taro Khamkaro (1989) Tatsunoko Taro (1979) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Taro farmer and NRCS District Conservationist John Schlegel discuss conservation plan near Honolai, HI. [Slide 97CS3179].Credit: Ron Nichols. |
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Economic History | Marshall Islands | Agriculture: Products--Copra (dried coconut meat); taro and breadfruit are subsistence crops. (references) |
Marshall Islands | In short, fishing and breadfruit, banana, taro, and pandanus cultivation constitute the subsistence sector. (references) | |
Samoa | The collapse of taro exports in 1994 has had the unintended effect of modestly diversifying Samoa's export products and markets. (references) | |
Political Economy | Tuvalu | The primarily subsistence economy relies mainly on coconuts, taro, and fishing. (references) |
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| "Taro" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 69.57% of the time. "Taro" is used about 23 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 69.57% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Noun (singular) | 30.43% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 23 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "taro": giant taro ♦ taro plant ♦ taro root. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
taro | 231 |
taro pharmaceutical | 40 |
taro card | 36 |
root taro | 29 |
taro plant | 20 |
recipe taro | 8 |
taro chip | 8 |
reading taro | 7 |
agriculture taro | 7 |
sushi taro | 7 |
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| Language | Translations for "taro"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 芋头. (various references) | |
Danish | taro (cocoyam, dasheen, eddo, tara). (various references) | |
Dutch | taro (cocoyam, dasheen, eddo, tara), keladi (cocoyam, dasheen, eddo, tara), kales (calash, carriage, coach, cocoyam, dasheen, eddo, tara). (various references) | |
Farsi | گوش فیل نواحی گرمسیر(گ.ش.). (various references) | |
Finnish | taaro (cocoyam, dasheen, eddo, tara). (various references) | |
French | taro (tara). (various references) | |
German | Taro (cocoyam, dasheen, eddo, tara). (various references) | |
Greek | κολοκασία η εδώδιμος (cocoyam, dasheen, eddo, tara), κολοκασία η αρχαία (cocoyam, dasheen, eddo, tara). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tarógyökér, kalógyökér. (various references) | |
Indonesian | talas. (various references) | |
Italian | taro (cocoyam, dasheen, eddo, tara), colocasia (cocoyam, dasheen, eddo, tara). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 芋 (bumpkin, gnat, potato, tuber, yokel), 里芋 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | さといも, いも (bumpkin, potato, tuber, yokel). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arotay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | taro (cocoyam, dasheen, eddo, tara), colocásia comestível (cocoyam, dasheen, eddo, tara). (various references) | |
Russian | таро. (various references) | |
Spanish | taro (cocoyam, dasheen, eddo, tara), malanga (cocoyam, dasheen, eddo, tara), colocasia (cocoyam, dasheen, eddo, tara). (various references) | |
Swedish | taro (cocoyam, dasheen, eddo, tara). (various references) | |
Thai | เผือก. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Colocasia, Colocasia antiquorum, Colocasia esculenta. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "taro": taroc, tarocs, tarok, taroks, taros, tarot, tarots. (additional references) | |
Words containing "taro": haftarot, haftaroth, haphtarot, haphtaroth, nectarous. (additional references) | |
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"Taro" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Athro, ator, atro, Atrox, jaro, laro, taao, taar, tabo, tado, tadre, taeo, taero, tafo, tago, taho, tahoo, tahr, taio, taire, tajo, tako, talo, Tamo, tano, taoo, taor, taorn, taory, taox, tapo, tapoo, taqo, tara, tarb, tard, tarf, targ, targon, tari, tark, tarl, taroe, taroj, tarok, Taroko, Tarom, tarr, Tarra, tarri, Tarum, tarv, tarz, taure, tavo, Tavoy, tavr, Tavrov, taxo, tayo, taze, tazo, tearo, Telroc, teor, tercom, terl, teru, tigron, tior, Tirfor, tiri, tjara, toare, toro, toroy, torro, tra, trado, traq, tro, trox, tsara, Tsavo, tufo, turo, Turok, tvro, Tzara, varo. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "taro" (pronounced te"rō) |
| 4 | t e" r ō | Montero. |
| 3 | -e" r ō | aero, bolero, bracero, Caballero, embarcadero, Faro, marrow, narrow, Pharaoh, sombrero, sparrow, Yarrow. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: rato, rota, tora. | |
| Words within the letters "a-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: art, oar, oat, ora, ort, rat, rot, tao, tar, tor. | |
-2 letters: ar, at, or, ta, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: abort, actor, amort, aorta, aport, argot, boart, gator, groat, korat, oater, orate, ottar, ratio, ratos, roast, rotas, tabor, tardo, taroc, tarok, taros, tarot, tolar, torah, toras, troak, trona. | |
+2 letters: abator, aborts, actors, adroit, agorot, aorist, aortae, aortal, aortas, aortic, argots, aristo, aroint, aroynt, assort, atoner, attorn, author, boarts, boater, borate, cantor, captor, carrot, carton, cartop, castor, cavort, coater, contra, costar, cottar, craton, dotard, factor, forgat, format, garote, gators, groats, harlot, korats, marmot, matron, mortal, mortar, natron, nonart, notary, oaters, orated, orates, orator, orgeat, ornate, ottars, outran, outwar, oxcart, parrot, parton, pastor, patrol, patron, portal, protea, quarto, rabato, ragout, ragtop, raptor, ration, ratios, ratoon, ratton, rebato, rialto, roasts, rostra, rotary, rotate, rubato, sartor, satori, scrota, stator, storax, stroma, tabors, tabour, tailor, tarocs, taroks, tarots, tarpon, thorax, thoria, throat, tolars, torahs, torula, toward, troaks, trocar, troika, tronas, turaco, viator, votary. | |
+3 letters: abators, abettor, aborted, aborter, acrobat, acrotic, adaptor, adopter, aerator, aerosat, affront, agoroth, airboat, airport, airpost, alastor, althorn, amatory, amorist, another, aorists, apricot, aprotic, argotic, aristos, arnatto, arnotto, aroints, aroynts, artwork, assorts, atoners, atrophy, atropin, attorns, auditor, authors, aviator, awlwort, baronet, bloater, boaster, boaters, borated, borates, borstal, bothria, bromate, caltrop, cantors, captors, carotid, carotin, carport, carrots, carroty, cartons, cartoon, castors, cavorts, chantor, chariot, citator, coactor, coaster, coaters, compart, contras, coranto, cordate, costard, costars, cottars, courant, cratons, creator, curator, delator, diatron, dilator, dogcart, donator, doormat, dormant, dotards, earshot, enactor, equator, erotica, esparto, exactor, factors, factory, fagoter, faitour, fanwort, floater, formant, formate, formats, frontal, garoted, garotes, garotte, garrote, gloater, grantor, grayout, gyrator, hardtop, haricot, harlots, janitor, legator, leotard, levator, litoral, loather, locater, locator, madwort, maestro, marcato, marmots, marplot, matador, matrons, mordant, mortals, mortars, mortary, natrons, negator, nonarts, ocreate, odorant, operant, operate, oralist, orality, orating, oration, orators, oratory, oratrix, orbital, orgeats, ortolan, ostiary, ostmark, ostraca, outbark, outbrag, outdare, outdrag, outdraw, outearn, outhear, outpray, outrace, outrage, outrang, outrank, outrate, outrave, outread, outroar, outsoar, outward, outwars, outwear, overact, overapt, overate, overeat, overfat, overtax, oxcarts, oxheart, parotic, parotid, parrots, parroty, partons, partook, pastors, patriot, patrols, patrons, patroon, phorate, portage, portals, portray, postwar, praetor, probate, prolate, pronate, pronota, prorate, protean, proteas, quartos, rabatos, ragouts, ragtops, ragwort, rainout, rapport, raptors, rathole, rations, ratoons, rattons, rattoon, reactor, readopt, readout, reallot, realtor, rebatos, reboant, redcoat, refloat, relator, rialtos, ricotta, roasted, roaster, robusta, romaunt, rootage, roseate, rostral, rotated, rotates, rotator, rotunda, rowboat, royalty, rubatos, santour, sartors, satoris, sautoir, scrotal, seaport, senator, shortia, sorbate, stardom, stators, storage, stromal, surcoat, tabored, taborer, taboret, taborin, tabours, tailors, tamarao, tambour, tandoor, taproom, taproot, tardyon, tarpons, tearoom, teraohm, thorias, throats, throaty, toaster, tollbar, tonearm, topiary, tornado, torsade, torulae, torulas, touraco, towards, tractor, traitor, transom, travois, treason, tritoma, troaked, trocars, trochal, trochar, troikas, troland, tsardom, tumoral, turacos, turacou, tzardom, viators, vibrato, warthog. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 61 72 6F |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .- .-. --- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100001 01110010 01101111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T a r o |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0061 0072 006F |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54678481 |
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