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yautia
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun yautia has 1 sense
- yautia(n = noun.plant) malanga, spoonflower, tannia, xanthosoma atrovirens, xanthosoma sagittifolium - tropical American aroid having edible tubers that are cooked and eaten like yams or potatoes; Array is a kind of aroid, arum
is a member of genus xanthosoma, xanthosoma
CIDE DICTIONARY
yautia, n. [Native name in the Antilles.].
In Puerto Rico, any of several araceous plants or their starchy edible roots, which are cooked and eaten like yams or potatoes, as the taro. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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