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dashine

dashine is the alternative form 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

Forms of dashine

pluraldashines

Questions about dashine

What is dashine the alternative form of?
Dashine is the alternative form of dasheen.

Words near dashine in the dictionary

  1. Dashiells
  2. dashier
  3. dashiest
  4. dashiki
  5. dashikis
  6. dashine
  7. dashines
  8. dashing
  9. dashing down
  10. dashing off
  11. dashing on

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dashine (page history and authors); dasheen (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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