Taro vs. Yam

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  • Taro

    Colocasia esculenta is a tropical plant grown primarily for its edible corms. The root vegetable is most commonly known as taro (). It is the most widely cultivated species of several plants in the Araceae family, which are used as vegetables for their corms, leaves, and petioles. Taro corms are a food staple in African, Oceanic and South Asian cultures, and taro is believed to have been one of the earliest cultivated plants.

Wikipedia
  • Taro (noun)

    Colocasia esculenta, raised as a food primarily for its corm, which distantly resembles potato.

  • Taro (noun)

    Any of several other species with similar corms and growth habit in Colocasia, Alocasia etc.

  • Taro (noun)

    Food from a taro plant.

  • Yam (noun)

    Any climbing vine of the genus Dioscorea in the Eastern and Western hemispheres, usually cultivated.

  • Yam (noun)

    The edible, starchy, tuberous root of that plant, a tropical staple food.

  • Yam (noun)

    A sweet potato; a tuber from the species Ipomoea batatas.

  • Yam (noun)

    Potato.

  • Yam (noun)

    A oca; a tuber from the species ver=170624.

  • Yam (noun)

    Taro.

  • Yam (noun)

    An orange-brown colour, like that of yam.

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Wiktionary
  • Taro (noun)

    a tropical Asian plant of the arum family which has edible starchy corms and edible fleshy leaves, especially a variety with a large central corm grown as a staple in the Pacific.

  • Taro (noun)

    the corm of the taro plant.

Oxford Dictionary

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