GIANT TARO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does giant taro mean? 

• GIANT TARO (noun)
  The noun GIANT TARO has 1 sense:

1. large evergreen with extremely large erect or spreading leaves; cultivated widely in tropics for its edible rhizome and shoots; used in wet warm regions as a stately ornamental

  Familiarity information: GIANT TARO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GIANT TARO (noun)

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Meaning:

Large evergreen with extremely large erect or spreading leaves; cultivated widely in tropics for its edible rhizome and shoots; used in wet warm regions as a stately ornamental

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Alocasia macrorrhiza; giant taro

Hypernyms ("giant taro" is a kind of...):

alocasia; elephant's ear; elephant ear (any plant of the genus Alocasia having large showy basal leaves and boat-shaped spathe and reddish berries)