taro plant

Questions about taro plant

What does taro plant mean?

taro plant 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".

What is another word for taro plant?

Close synonyms include taro, dalo, 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 taro plant a common word?

taro plant 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.