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Taro is the tropical plant grown for the big starchy root you boil, steam, mash or fry — the one students already know as 芋頭. The leaves are huge and heart-shaped, and in some countries they are cooked and eaten too. The root has to be cooked; raw, it will make your mouth and throat and burn. In English the word is used both for the plant and for the food, and it is uncountable when you talk about eating it: 'taro ice cream', 'some taro', 'taro balls'. It comes up constantly in writing about Pacific island food, and about Chinese, Japanese and Southeast Asian cooking. One thing worth knowing: what English speakers picture is usually a plain white or cream-coloured root. The pale purple with darker flecks that people picture is real, but bubble-tea shops and bakeries have made the purple much more famous here than it is elsewhere, and a lot of purple 'taro' flavour in shops is really .
組成Borrowed from Māori 'taro', the Polynesian name for the plant — English picked it up from the Pacific, along with the plant itself. Hawaiian uses the closely related form 'kalo'.
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Taroname
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A river and valley in Italy.
taronoun/ˈtæɹəʊ/
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Colocasia esculenta, raised as a food primarily for its corm, which distantly resembles potato.
- The Jiasian region is famous for taro ice cream. Even though taro is the key ingredient in the ice cream, people in this area bought taro from other regions. During the post-Typhoon Morakot reconstruction process, JCA and other local organisations encouraged large numbers of farmers in Jiasian to grow taro. The Agriculture Bureau then started investing in Jiasian taro farming. Local taro ice cream makers are now using local taro to support local agriculture.
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Any of several other species with similar corms and growth habit in Colocasia, Alocasia etc.
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Food from a taro plant.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。