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dasheens

dasheens is the plural of dasheen.

Meaning of dasheen

Noun

dasheen (plural dasheens)

  1. Old cocoyam; the edible starchy yellow tuber of the taro plant.
    • He say tell your people [...] to boil more banana, and roast more yam, fry more potato and dig up more dasheen.2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 151

Questions about dasheens

What is dasheens the plural of?
Dasheens is the plural of dasheen.

Words near dasheens in the dictionary

  1. dashed off
  2. dashed on
  3. dashed someone's hopes
  4. dashedly
  5. dasheen
  6. dasheens
  7. dasheki
  8. dashekis
  9. dasher
  10. Dashera
  11. Dasherah

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