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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.

    Taro Taro is the tropical plant指的是熱帶植物 grown for the big starchy root種來收成又大又澱粉質的根 you boil, steam, mash or fry可以水煮、蒸、搗成泥或油炸 the one Taiwanese students already know as 芋頭就是台灣學生早就認識的芋頭

    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.

    The leaves are huge and heart-shaped葉子很大、心形 in some countries有些國家 they are cooked and eaten too也會拿葉子來煮來吃 The root has to be cooked根一定要煮熟 raw生吃的話 it will make your mouth and throat itch and burn會讓你的嘴巴和喉嚨又癢又灼熱

    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.

    In English the word is used both for the plant and for the food在英文裡這個字既可以指植物也可以指食物 it is uncountable when you talk about eating it講到吃的時候是不可數名詞： 'taro ice cream', 'some taro', 'taro balls'像'taro ice cream'、'some taro'、'taro balls' It comes up constantly in writing about Pacific island food寫太平洋島嶼食物的文章裡常常出現 and about Chinese, Japanese and Southeast Asian cooking中式、日式、東南亞料理的文章也一樣

    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 .

    One thing worth knowing有一件事值得知道： what English speakers picture is usually a plain white or cream-coloured root英語人士腦中想到的通常是普通白色或米黃色的根 The pale purple with darker flecks that Taiwanese people picture is real台灣人想到的帶深色斑點的淡紫色的確存在 bubble-tea shops and bakeries have made the purple much more famous here than it is elsewhere但珍珠奶茶店和麵包店讓紫色在這裡比其他地方有名得多 a lot of purple 'taro' flavour in shops is really colouring店裡很多紫色'taro'口味其實是色素

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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，原文照列，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.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。