eddo
noun
the edible root of the taro or of any of several related plants.
eddoes
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pluralof eddo.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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We met with several ponds of stagnant water, in which the natives had planted great quantities of eddoes.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 by Robert Kerr
In addition, there is a large production for home-consumption, of such articles as sweet potatoes, eddoes, yams, cassava-root, etc.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 53, March, 1862 by Various
In these islands the hog is the principal quadruped, and the fruit of the bread-tree is its principal food, although it is also fed with yams, eddoes, and other vegetables.
From The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton
They subsisted on wild meats, fish, forest fruits and nuts, and the cultivated plantains, cassava, maize, ground-nuts, yams, eddoes, sweet potatoes, and a few other vegetables.
From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Robert Hamill Nassau
The quantities of ground provisions, as yams, eddoes, sweet potatoes, &c., grown in favourable seasons, is very considerable.
From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous
