taioba
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The plant Xanthosoma sagittifolium (or occasionally the similar and related plant Xanthosoma taioba), which produces edible corms and leaves.
Example Sentences
- "[…] taioba, a vegetable in great demand among the state's quarter-million Brazilian residents."
- "Taioba starch displays a high amylopectin content, which enables its digestive process as demonstrated by Espinosa-Solis et al. (2021). Results showed that the taioba sample exhibits higher moisture levels […]"
- "Imagine […] that you are from the region of Minas Gerais, in southeastern Brazil, and have moved to the United States; you'd miss taioba (Xanthosoma sagittifolium) the way an American would miss the common vegetables grown here. There were big smiles and lots of gesticulating when I popped open my trunk to display the taioba plants I was driving to different gardeners. The guys in the van next to me were on their way to work when I pointed to the plants in my car. "Taioba!" I said, but they shook their heads. "Not here!" It turns out, taioba can grow in Massachusetts, just not year-round."
Etymology
Brazilian Portuguese taioba, from Old Tupi taîoba, taîaoba.
Word Breakdown
- Root: taioba, taîoba