xanthosoma atrovirens

Questions about xanthosoma atrovirens

What does xanthosoma atrovirens mean?

xanthosoma atrovirens means "tropical American aroid having edible tubers that are cooked and eaten like yams or potatoes".

What is another word for xanthosoma atrovirens?

Close synonyms include yautia, tannia, spoonflower, malanga, Xanthosoma sagittifolium. 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 xanthosoma atrovirens a common word?

xanthosoma atrovirens 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.