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Eddoe, the Glossary

Eddoe or eddo (Colocasia antiquorum) is a species in genus Colocasia, a tropical vegetable, closely related to taro (dasheen, Colocasia esculenta), which is primarily used for its thickened stems (corms).^[1]

26 relations: Akan languages, Alocasia, Araceae, Carl Linnaeus, China, Cocoyam, Colocasia, Corm, Dioscorea, Domesticated plants and animals of Austronesia, Fante dialect, Genus, Heinrich Wilhelm Schott, Igbo language, Igbo people in Jamaica, Japan, Merriam-Webster, Portuguese language, Root vegetable, São Paulo, Species, Taro, Tone (linguistics), Twi, West Indies, Xanthosoma.
Crops originating from Asia
Taros

Akan languages

Akan is a group of several closely related languages within the wider Central Tano languages.

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Alocasia

Alocasia is a genus of rhizomatous or tuberous, broad-leaved, perennial, flowering plants from the family Araceae. Eddoe and Alocasia are Aroideae.

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Araceae

The Araceae are a family of monocotyledonous flowering plants in which flowers are borne on a type of inflorescence called a spadix.

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Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,Blunt (2004), p. 171.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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Cocoyam

Cocoyam is a common name for more than one tropical root crop and vegetable crop belonging to the Arum family (also known as Aroids and by the family name Araceae) and may refer to. Eddoe and Cocoyam are root vegetables and Staple foods.

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Colocasia

Colocasia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to southeastern Asia and the Indian subcontinent. Eddoe and Colocasia are Aroideae.

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Corm

Corm, bulbo-tuber, or bulbotuber is a short, vertical, swollen underground plant stem that serves as a storage organ that some plants use to survive winter or other adverse conditions such as summer drought and heat (perennation).

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Dioscorea

Dioscorea is a genus of over 600 species of flowering plants in the family Dioscoreaceae, native throughout the tropical and warm temperate regions of the world.

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Domesticated plants and animals of Austronesia

One of the major human migration events was the maritime settlement of the islands of the Indo-Pacific by the Austronesian peoples, believed to have started from at least 5,500 to 4,000 BP (3500 to 2000 BCE). Eddoe and Domesticated plants and animals of Austronesia are crops originating from Asia.

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Fante dialect

Fante, also known as Fanti, Fantse, or Mfantse, is one of the four principal members of the Akan dialect continuum, along with Asante, Bono and Akuapem, the latter three collectively known as Twi, with which it is mutually intelligible.

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Genus

Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.

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Heinrich Wilhelm Schott

Heinrich Wilhelm Schott (7 January 1794 – 5 March 1865) was an Austrian botanist.

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Igbo language

Igbo (Standard Igbo: Ásụ̀sụ́ Ìgbò) is the principal native language cluster of the Igbo people, an ethnicity in the Southeastern part of Nigeria.

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Igbo people in Jamaica

Igbo people in Jamaica were trafficked by Europeans onto the island between the 18th and 19th centuries as enslaved labour on plantations.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Merriam-Webster

Merriam-Webster, Incorporated is an American company that publishes reference books and is mostly known for its dictionaries.

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Portuguese language

Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.

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Root vegetable

Root vegetables are underground plant parts eaten by humans as food. Eddoe and Root vegetable are root vegetables.

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São Paulo

São Paulo is the most populous city in Brazil and the capital of the state of São Paulo.

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Species

A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.

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Taro

Taro (Colocasia esculenta) is a root vegetable. Eddoe and Taro are Aroideae, crops originating from Asia, leaf vegetables, root vegetables, Staple foods, Taros and tropical agriculture.

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Tone (linguistics)

Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning—that is, to distinguish or to inflect words.

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Twi

Twi is a variety of the Akan language spoken in southern and central Ghana by several million people, mainly of the Akan people, the largest of the seventeen major ethnic groups in Ghana.

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West Indies

The West Indies is a subregion of North America, surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, which comprises 13 independent island countries and 19 dependencies in three archipelagos: the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the Lucayan Archipelago.

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Xanthosoma

Xanthosoma is a genus of flowering plants in the arum family, Araceae. Eddoe and Xanthosoma are Aroideae, leaf vegetables, root vegetables and Staple foods.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddoe

Also known as Colocasia antiquorum, Eddoes.