Eddoes

Word EDDOES
Character 6
Hyphenation ed does
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Eddoes"

What do we mean by eddoes?

A plant (Colocasia esculenta, but often identified as Colocasia antiquorum, among numerous other synonyms), which is usually considered a variety of C. esculenta, with edible starchy tubers.

The tubers of this plant.

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The word "eddoes" in example sentences

Exports—commodities: bananas 39%, eddoes and dasheen (taro), arrowroot starch; tennis racquets ❋ Unknown (2008)

He buys land in Chaguanas and employs labourers to grow rice, peas and eddoes, an edible root. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In Part III (38 mins., beginning the second videotape), he discusses corm-producing aroid species such as tanias, taros, eddoes and dasheens. ❋ Unknown (1996)

Dasheen corms grown under erratic moisture conditions show peculiar dumbell-like shapes, reflecting constrictions in growth during dry periods, and under water stress eddoes produce few cormels. ❋ Unknown (1987)

In the eddoes the central corm is smaller and bears many small side cormels, which are normally eaten. ❋ Unknown (1987)

In general the eddoes are hardier than the dasheens and can be grown in drier conditions on poorer soils. ❋ Unknown (1987)

Both dasheen and eddoe type corms can be kept in good condition for upwards of 4 weeks in the tropics: thus dasheens with tops attached and minimal wounding, and good quality eddoes, can be stored in pits dug in well-drained soil and lined with leaves, and well-shaded, on trays or in small heaps under houses, or in cellars or barns. ❋ Unknown (1987)

There is also a small import trade in dasheens and eddoes by the UK. ❋ Unknown (1987)

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines bananas 39\%, eddoes and dasheen ❋ United States. Central Intelligence Agency (N/A)

Exports - commodities: bananas 39\%, eddoes and dasheen (taro), arrowroot starch, tennis racquets ❋ United States. Central Intelligence Agency (N/A)

And Thirdly -- the edible Root crops and Starch producing plants, which are a somewhat extensive class, the chief of which, however, are the common potato, yams, cocos or eddoes, sweet potatoes, the bitter and sweet cassava or manioc, the arrowroot and other plants yielding starch in more or less purity. ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: bananas 39\%, eddoes and dasheen ❋ United States. Central Intelligence Agency (N/A)

Exports -- commodities: bananas 39\%, eddoes and dasheen (taro), arrowroot starch, tennis racquets ❋ United States. Central Intelligence Agency (N/A)

Exports - commodities: bananas 39\%, eddoes and dasheen (taro), arrowroot starch; tennis racquets ❋ United States. Central Intelligence Agency (N/A)

She had learned there not to work the slaves too hard in the warm period of the day; and she showed her interest by having served at her own table the favourite olio the slaves made of plantains, bananas, yams, calalue, eddoes, cassavi, and sweet potatoes boiled with salt fish and flavoured with cayenne pepper. ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)

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