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cocoyam

NOUN
  1. tropical starchy tuberous root
  2. edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants

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  • Taro is sometimes confused with malanga, yautia, and cocoyam, tubers of a number of New World tropical species in the genus Xanthosoma, which are also arums protected by oxalate crystals. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
  • The most important root and tuber crops are cassava, sweet potato, yams, taro (cocoyam) and tannia (new cocoyam). Chapter 3
  • Forest crops, such as plantain, cassava, cocoyam, and tropical yams, predominate in the south.
  • In W. Africa, where both taro and malanga are staple foods, next in importance only to cassava and yams, they are known as ‘old’ and ‘new cocoyam’.
  • The staple foods of Equatorial Guinea are cocoyams, plantains, and rice.
  • In the US they call them dasheen, taro, cocoyams and also malanga.
  • The classical example of this is the treatment, before eating, of yams (Dioscorea spp.) and keladis, taros, cocoyams (aroid yams of the genera Colocasia, Xanthosoma, Amorphophallus), tapioca, cassava (Manihot esculenta Cranz), and the so-called cabbages of palms. Chapter 19
  • Forest crops, such as plantain, cassava, cocoyam, and tropical yams, predominate in the south.
  • When planted in a mixture with maize or cocoyam, the distance between the 6.1 General recommendations
  • Forest crops, such as plantain, cassava, cocoyam, and tropical yams, predominate in the south.
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