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.
- Fortaleza
- fortalice
- Fortas, Abe
- Fort Collins
- Fort-de-France
- Fort Dodge
- forte
- Fortean
- Forteana
- forte piano
- fortepiano
- forth
- for that matter
- forthcoming
- forthcomingness
- for the asking
- for the benefit of
- for the duration
- for the fun of it
- for the hell of it
- for the life of me
- for the love of God
- for the love of Mike
- for the moment
- for the most part