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‖ tannia, tanier, tannier
(ˈtænjə(r), ‖ ˈtanja)
Also tania, tanier, tannier.
[a. Tupi taña, taya, Carib taya.]
A species of Caladium or Xanthosoma (X. sagittifolium), N.O. Araceæ, cultivated in Brazil, the West Indies, and tropical Africa, for its farinaceous tuberous root; it is closely allied to the eddoes.
[1625Purchas Pilgrims IV. 1310 There are certaine Taiaobas, that are like Cabiges.] 1756P. Browne Jamaica 332 The purple Cocco and Tannier. 1766J. Bartram Jrnl. 10 Feb., in W. Stork Acc. E. Florida (1790) 32 Breakfasted on a mess of tanniers, a species of eddo. 1792M. Riddell Voy. Madeira 84 The arum virginiana, or tannier, and the arum esculentum, or eddoe, are two excellent farinaceous vegetables. 1871Kingsley At Last vi, His patch of provision-ground..gives him..yam, tania, cassava, and fruit too. 1898L. Crookall Brit. Guiana vi. 83 Then there are white yams and buck yams,..tannias and eddoes. 1953Caribbean Q. III. ii. 103 In 1811, Charles Edmonson..reported..: ‘The quantity of rice the Bush Negroes have just rising out of the ground is very considerable independent of yams, tannias, plantains, tobacco, &c.’ 1955Ibid. IV. ii. 112 Grated tannia fritters..fried in deep fat on a coalpot. 1968[see dasheen]. 1979West Africa 8 Jan. 51/1 In Cameroon..the other, tannia sort [of cocoyam] is called macabo. |