Definition
dasheen
noun
- A tropical plant (Colocasia esculenta) with large heart-shaped leaves, cultivated for its starchy edible corm; also called taro.
Usage: chiefly Caribbean and West Indian English; the corm is eaten as a staple food
Examples
- Dasheen is a staple crop in many Caribbean islands.
- The dasheen plant thrives in warm, wet climates.
- She boiled the dasheen corm until it was soft and tender.
- Dasheen leaves are sometimes used in traditional cooking.
- The farmer harvested dasheen from the garden for the weekly market.