dasheen means old cocoyam; the edible starchy yellow tuber of the taro plant.
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dasheen is pronounced /dæˈʃiːn/.
Etymology
From a language of the West Indies. Probably from Antillean Creole dachine or another French creole, from French (chou) de Chine (literally “(cabbage) of China”), as the species originated in China.
noun
- Old cocoyam; the edible starchy yellow tuber of the taro plant.e.g.“He say tell your people [...] to boil more banana, and roast more yam, fry more potato and dig up more dasheen.” — 2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 151:
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Words closest in meaning
By meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.
- colocasia 68% match — Taro; eddo. vs dasheen →
- cocoyam 68% match — New cocoyam: Xanthosoma, particularly Xanthosoma sagittifolium, or the edible root of that plant; malanga. vs dasheen →
- yautia 64% match — An edible plant commonly found in the Caribbean: Xanthosoma sagittifolium, new cocoyam. vs dasheen →
- taro 62% match — Colocasia esculenta, raised as a food primarily for its corm, which distantly resembles potato. vs dasheen →
- macoya 62% match — A plant of the genus Xanthosoma, yielding edible tubers. vs dasheen →
- yakayaka 58% match — steamed cassava vs dasheen →
- cassava 57% match — Manioc (Manihot esculenta), a tropical plant which is the source of tapioca. vs dasheen →
- eddo 57% match — 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. vs dasheen →