taro
/ˈtæɹəʊ/US/ˈtæɹoʊ/
taro noun: colocasia esculenta, raised as a food primarily for its corm, which distantly resembles potato.
Noun
taro (usually uncountable, plural taros)
- Colocasia esculenta, raised as a food primarily for its corm, which distantly resembles potato.
- The Jiasian region is famous for taro ice cream. Even though taro is the key ingredient in the ice cream, people in this area bought taro from other regions. During the post-Typhoon Morakot reconstruction process, JCA and other local organisations encouraged large numbers of farmers in Jiasian to...2018, Lena Dominelli, editor, The Routledge Handbook of Green Social Work, Routledge, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 134
- Synonyms:
- colocasia, elephant ears, eddo, old cocoyam, yam
- Any of several other species with similar corms and growth habit in Colocasia, Alocasia etc.
- Food from a taro plant.
Proper noun capitalized: Taro
Taro
taro meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
taro in Hindi
- Colocasia esculenta
- अरबी arbī, अरवी arvī, अरुई aruī, कच्चू kaccū, कचालू kacālū
- food from the taro plant
- अरबी arbī, अरवी arvī, अरुई aruī, कच्चू kaccū, कचालू kacālū
taro in Tamil
- சேப்பன் கிழங்கு, சேம்பு
taro in Urdu
- taro
- کچالو kacālū
taro in Bengali
- Colocasia esculenta
- কচু kocu, মুখি mukhi
More languagesFewer languages
- taro in Telugu
- చేమ cēma
- taro in Malayalam
- താള് tāḷŭ, ചേമ്പ് cēmpŭ, പൊടിച്ചേമ്പ് poṭiccēmpŭ
- taro in Kannada
- ಕೆಸು
- taro in Punjabi
- ਅਰਵੀ aravī
- taro in Gujarati
- અળવી aḷvī
- taro in Odia
- ସାରୁ sāru
- taro in Sanskrit
- कचु kacu, कच्वी kacvī
- taro in Assamese
- কচু kosu
- taro in Nepali
- पिंडालु piṇḍālu
- taro in Tagalog
- gabi, kalawa
- taro in Arabic
- قُلْقَاس qulqās
- taro in Malay
- keladi Cina, talas
- taro in Indonesian
- keladi, talas
- taro in Persian
- پیلگوش pīlgūš
- taro in Thai
- เผือก pʉ̀ʉak
- taro in Vietnamese
- khoai môn, khoai sọ
- taro in Myanmar
- ပိန်းဥ pin:u.
- Dhivehi
- އޮޅު އަލަ oḷu ala
Examples of taro in a sentence
- “The emperor and his allies have decided to protect Querétaro from being taken by the Juaristas."
- However, eddoe, taro and tania differ in their morphology and duration of growing period.
- People spent the days before the visit fishing, octopusing, digging taro, cooking, and cleaning public spaces.
Synonyms of taro
Forms of taro
| plural | taros |
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Origin of taro
Borrowed from Māori taro. Doublet of kalo, from Hawaiian.
From Latin Tarus.
Words formed from taro
- Chinese taro
- giant swamp taro
- giant taro
- metallic taro
- swamp taro
- taro cake
- taro flying frog
- taro-patch fiddle
Phrases with taro
Words that rhyme with taro
Questions about taro
- What does taro mean?
- Taro means colocasia esculenta, raised as a food primarily for its corm, which distantly resembles potato.
- What is taro in Hindi?
- Taro in Hindi is अरबी (arbī), अरवी (arvī), अरुई (aruī). See Taro meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is taro?
- Taro can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce taro?
- Taro is pronounced /ˈtæɹəʊ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of taro?
- The plural of taro is taros.
Words near taro in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: taro (page history and authors); Taro (page history and authors); taro (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); کچالو (Urdu) (page history and authors); చేమ (Telugu) (page history and authors); taro (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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