xanthosoma sagittifolium

Questions about xanthosoma sagittifolium

What does xanthosoma sagittifolium mean?

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

What is another word for xanthosoma sagittifolium?

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

xanthosoma sagittifolium 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.