dasheen
/daˈʃiːn
/noun
Another term for taro.Locally grown vegetables, ‘ground provision,’ include yams and sweet potatoes, dasheens, eddoes, tannies, and cassava....
- Starches include various kinds of yams, dasheen, eddos, bananas and plantains, sweet potatoes, and breadfruit.
- Main courses, including Ackee and prawns, Jerk Chicken, Kofta curry, and the house special of goat and lamb stew with couscous are complemented with traditional vegetables of amongst others; dasheens, okra and yams.
Origin
Late 19th century (originally West Indian): of unknown origin.