dalo

1. 1.

   herb of the Pacific islands grown throughout the tropics for its edible root and in temperate areas as an ornamental for its large glossy leaves

   Synonymstarotaro plantdasheenColocasia esculenta

   Broaderarum

   Part ofColocasia

   Partstaro

Other forms of dalo

plural

daloes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dalo

What does dalo mean?

dalo means "herb of the Pacific islands grown throughout the tropics for its edible root and in temperate areas as an ornamental for its large glossy leaves".

How many syllables are in dalo?

dalo has 2 syllables: da-lo. The stress falls on "da". In IPA it is /ˈdɑloʊ/.

What is another word for dalo?

Close synonyms include taro, taro plant, dasheen, Colocasia esculenta. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dalo a common word?

dalo is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.