The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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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 H. Bencraft Joly
Samoa itself provided skinny chickens, some kind of pigeon, yams, taros, and of course fish.
From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers
Our yams and our taros even now are suffering from it.
From The Great Taboo by Grant Allen
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 Sir James George Frazer
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
