yautia

Other forms of yautia

plural

yautias·

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 yautia

What does yautia mean?

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

How many syllables are in yautia?

yautia has 3 syllables: y-au-tia. The stress falls on "y".

What is another word for yautia?

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

yautia is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.