Taro vs. Cocoyam

Taronoun

Colocasia esculenta, raised as a food primarily for its corm, which distantly resembles potato.

Cocoyamnoun

New cocoyam: Xanthosoma, particularly Xanthosoma sagittifolium, or the edible root of that plant; malanga.

Taronoun

Any of several other species with similar corms and growth habit in Colocasia, Alocasia etc.

Cocoyamnoun

Old cocoyam: Colocasia esculenta; taro.

Taronoun

Food from a taro plant.

Cocoyamnoun

edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants

Taronoun

A name for several aroid plants (Colocasia antiquorum, var. esculenta, Colocasia macrorhiza, etc.), and their rootstocks. They have large ovate-sagittate leaves and large fleshy tuberous rootstocks, which are cooked and used for food in tropical countries.

Cocoyamnoun

tropical starchy tuberous root

Taronoun

edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants

Cocoyam

Cocoyam is a common name for more than one tropical root crop and vegetable crop belonging to the Arum family (also known as Aroids and by the family name Araceae) and may refer to: Taro (Colocasia esculenta) - old cocoyam Malanga (Xanthosoma spp.) - new cocoyamCocoyams are herbaceous perennial plants belonging to the family Araceae and are grown primarily for their edible roots, although all parts of the plant are edible. Cocoyams that are cultivated as food crops belong to either the genus Colocasia or the genus Xanthosoma and are generally composed of a large spherical corm (swollen underground storage stem), from which a few large leaves emerge.

Taronoun

herb of the Pacific islands grown throughout the tropics for its edible root and in temperate areas as an ornamental for its large glossy leaves

Taronoun

tropical starchy tuberous root

Taronoun

a tropical Asian plant of the arum family which has edible starchy corms and edible fleshy leaves, especially a variety with a large central corm grown as a staple in the Pacific.

Taronoun

the corm of the taro plant.

Taro

Colocasia esculenta is a tropical plant grown primarily for its edible corms, a root vegetable most commonly known as taro (), kalo, dasheen, madhumbe, marope, magogoya, patra or godere (see §Names and etymology for an extensive list). It is the most widely cultivated species of several plants in the family Araceae that are used as vegetables for their corms, leaves, and petioles.