taros
- plural of taro.
Example Sentences
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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 Vehling, Joseph Dommers
There only remained the scented taros, so that picking again a mandatory arrow, he ascertained who would go and carry away the taros: whereupon a very puny and very delicate rat was heard to assent.
From Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by Joly, H. Bencraft
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 Child-Villiers, Margaret Elizabeth Leigh
The sacrifices to the spirits consist of bananas, sugar-cane, and fish, never of taros or yams.
From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia by Frazer, James George, Sir
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 Child-Villiers, Margaret Elizabeth Leigh
