"dasheen" meaning in English

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          "name": "Arum family plants",
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          "text": "He say tell your people [...] to boil more banana, and roast more yam, fry more potato and dig up more dasheen.",
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        "Old cocoyam; the edible starchy yellow tuber of the taro plant."
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