The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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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 Joseph Dommers Vehling
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
Yams, taros, sugar-canes, bananas all grow there in profusion and without cultivation.
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
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
