English noun: taro plant | |||
1. | taro plant (plant) 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 | ||
Synonyms | Colocasia esculenta, dalo, dasheen, taro | ||
Broader (hypernym) | aroid, arum | ||
Part holonym | cocoyam, cocoyam, dasheen, dasheen, edda, eddo, taro, taro, taro root | ||
Member meronym | Colocasia, genus Colocasia | ||