Plants
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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), called Pulaka in Tuvalu and Babai in Kiribati
- Xanthosoma sagittifolium
Taro may also refer to:
Places
- Taro (river), a river in northern Italy
- Taro (department), a former administrative division of the First French Empire in present Italy, named after the Taro River
- TarÅ, Iwate, Japan (ç"°è€ç"º), 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
Other uses
- TarÅ (given name), a Japanese name
- Volkswagen Taro, a rebadge of the Toyota Hilux
- Taro, the monetary unit in the online game Cartoon Network Universe: FusionFall
- Ultraman Taro, a 1973 television series
- 48 Infantry Division Taro, an Italian infantry division of World War II
- "Taro", a song by the British band Alt-J
- Gerda Taro, a war photographer
- Taro Pharmaceuticals, a pharmaceutical manufacturer
- Ikutaro Kakehashi, whose nickname was Taro
- T.A.R.O., abbreviation for the UK's Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
See also
- Tarof, Persian customs
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