Webster's English Dictionary

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taro

ta.ro \'ta:r-(.)o-, 'tar-\ n [Tahitian & Maori] : a plant (Colocasia 
   esculenta) of the arum family grown throughout  the tropics for its edible 
   starchy tuberous rootstocks and in temperate regions for ornament; also : 
   its rootstock