plural taros
: a large-leaved tropical Asian plant (Colocasia esculenta) of the arum family grown throughout the tropics for its edible starchy corms and cormels and in temperate regions for ornament
also
: its corms and cormels typically cooked as a vegetable or ground into flour
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Beverages here include taro milk tea, pennywort juice and rich egg coffee.
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Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 23 Oct. 2025
Other drinks mix in Asian flavors like black sesame, Jeju Island green tangerine and rose-cream taro.
—John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025
Along a dirt road off the narrow highway that hugs the northern shore the taro leaves extend like waving hands from the quilt of rectangular pools so shallow that the birds in them stand with their leg joints exposed.
—Matt Negrin, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2025
Less than a hectare in size, these agroforestry systems have four layers of plants, starting near the ground with food crops such as taro and beans, and reaching higher toward the sky with coffee, bananas, and finally tall trees.
—Marianne Krasny, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
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Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 23 Oct. 2025
Other drinks mix in Asian flavors like black sesame, Jeju Island green tangerine and rose-cream taro.
—John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025
Along a dirt road off the narrow highway that hugs the northern shore the taro leaves extend like waving hands from the quilt of rectangular pools so shallow that the birds in them stand with their leg joints exposed.
—Matt Negrin, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2025
Less than a hectare in size, these agroforestry systems have four layers of plants, starting near the ground with food crops such as taro and beans, and reaching higher toward the sky with coffee, bananas, and finally tall trees.
—Marianne Krasny, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
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“Taro.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/taro. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.
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