yautia

2 definitions found

yautia - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Yautia \Yau*ti"a\, n. [Native name in the Antilles.]
     In Puerto Rico, any of several araceous plants or their
     starchy edible roots, which are cooked and eaten like yams or
     potatoes, as the taro.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

yautia - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  yautia
      n 1: tropical American aroid having edible tubers that are
           cooked and eaten like yams or potatoes [syn: yautia,
           tannia, spoonflower, malanga, Xanthosoma sagittifolium
           , Xanthosoma atrovirens]