The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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Our yams and our taros even now are suffering from it.
From The Great Taboo by Grant Allen
It consisted of pigeon, chickens, taros, and yams, but poor Mataafa, who had previously adjourned for evening service, could not share the birds because it was a fast day.
From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers
The magic here is quite clear: stones resembling taros are buried in the taro field to promote the growth of taros.
From An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion by F. B. (Frank Byron) Jevons
Fishing one day a week and cultivating a few yams and taros on another day would supply their food, and the women made tappa for their few garments out of the bark of trees.
From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers
Mark Catesby, in his Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, London, 1781, describes briefly under the name of arum maximum Aegypticum a plant which was doubtless one of the tanyahs or taros.
From Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Joseph Dommers Vehling
