"taro" meaning in Tok Pisin

See taro in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Etymology: From English taro. Etymology templates: {{inh|tpi|en|taro}} English taro Head templates: {{head|tpi|noun}} taro
  1. The taro plant. Categories (lifeform): Plants, Vegetables
    Sense id: en-taro-tpi-noun-9yFJwI6A Categories (other): Pages with 17 entries, Pages with entries, Tok Pisin entries with incorrect language header
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "tpi",
        "2": "en",
        "3": "taro"
      },
      "expansion": "English taro",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From English taro.",
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "tpi",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "taro",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Tok Pisin",
  "lang_code": "tpi",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Tok Pisin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "tpi",
          "name": "Plants",
          "orig": "tpi:Plants",
          "parents": [
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "tpi",
          "name": "Vegetables",
          "orig": "tpi:Vegetables",
          "parents": [
            "Foods",
            "Plants",
            "Eating",
            "Food and drink",
            "Lifeforms",
            "Human behaviour",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1995, John Verhaar, Toward a reference grammar of Tok Pisin: an experiment in corpus linguistics, →ISBN, page 433:",
          "text": "Mekim olsem pinis, orait tupela i planim taro na banana, na kumu, painap, kon, tomato, na kaukau tu.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The taro plant."
      ],
      "id": "en-taro-tpi-noun-9yFJwI6A",
      "links": [
        [
          "taro",
          "taro#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "taro"
}
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    "Pages with entries"
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "en",
        "3": "taro"
      },
      "expansion": "English taro",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From English taro.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "tpi",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "taro",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Tok Pisin",
  "lang_code": "tpi",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Pages with 17 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Requests for translations of Tok Pisin quotations",
        "Tok Pisin entries with incorrect language header",
        "Tok Pisin lemmas",
        "Tok Pisin nouns",
        "Tok Pisin terms derived from English",
        "Tok Pisin terms inherited from English",
        "Tok Pisin terms with quotations",
        "tpi:Plants",
        "tpi:Vegetables"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1995, John Verhaar, Toward a reference grammar of Tok Pisin: an experiment in corpus linguistics, →ISBN, page 433:",
          "text": "Mekim olsem pinis, orait tupela i planim taro na banana, na kumu, painap, kon, tomato, na kaukau tu.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The taro plant."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "taro",
          "taro#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "taro"
}

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