Taro (disambiguation)
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Taro is any of several tropical plants used as root vegetables:
- Most commonly, Colocasia esculenta
- Alocasia species, especially Alocasia macrorrhizos (giant taro)
- Cyrtosperma merkusii (swamp taro)
- Xanthosoma sagittifolium
Taro may also refer to:
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[edit] Places
- Taro River in northern Italy
- Taro (department), a former administrative division of the First French Empire in present Italy, named after the Taro River
- Tarō, Iwate, Japan (田老町), former town in Shimohei District, Iwate Prefecture (now part of Miyako)
- Taro Island, community in the Solomon Islands, capital of Choiseul Province
- Tarou, Dominica, a small village in western Dominica
[edit] Other uses
- Taro (given name), a Japanese male given name
- Volkswagen Taro, a Volkswagen rebadge of the Toyota Hilux in Europe
- Taro (snack) (Thai: ทาโร), a brand of dried fish snack popular in Thailand[1]
- Taro, the monetary unit in the online game Cartoon Network Universe: FusionFall
- Ultraman Taro, a 1973 tokusatsu film
- 48 Infantry Division Taro an Italian infantry division of World War II
[edit] See also
- Tarof, Persian customs
[edit] References
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