Taro is a tropical plant grown for its starchy corm. A field of taro, boiled taro, taro leaves.
It must be cooked, since the raw corm contains crystals that burn the mouth. Taro has been farmed for perhaps ten thousand years and is among the oldest cultivated crops.
1nountaroA tropical plant with huge heart-shaped leaves, grown for the starchy corm that Hawaiians pound into poi.
“The taro was pounded and left to ferment for two days.”
taro is a plant.
From Maori taro, and a doublet of the Hawaiian kalo.
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Borrowed from Maori taro. a doublet of kalo, from Hawaiian.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA