| 单词 | dasheen |
| 释义 | dasheen (once / 184677 pages) n WORD FAMILY dasheen: dasheens USAGE EXAMPLESSpiny lobsters stuffed with dasheen, a root vegetable similar to taro; braised conch with onions, peppers and garlic; and my personal favorite, stuffed trunkfish. Washington Post(Jan 29, 2015) Yet the corms, or bulbous tubers, of the dasheen plant are the “coco” of Jamaican cuisine, and the young leaves are a popular boiled green. New York Times(Oct 17, 2012) Greengrocers offer root vegetables the size of melons with names like dasheen and igname. New York Times(Jul 03, 2012) 1n tropical starchy tuberous root Syn|Hyper cocoyam, edda, taro, taro root root vegetable any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers 2n edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants Syn|Hyper cocoyam, eddo, taro root (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground 3n herb of the Pacific islands grown throughout the tropics for its edible root and in temperate areas as an ornamental for its large glossy leaves Syn|Hyper Colocasia esculenta, dalo, taro, taro plant aroid, arum any plant of the family Araceae; have small flowers massed on a spadix surrounded by a large spathe |
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