dasheenn.
/daˈʃiːn/ A cultivated variety ( Colocasia esculenta) of the taro.
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1899 West Indian Bull. 1 131 What is known in Trinidad as ‘dasheen’, also a Colocasia, is not, I think, grown in Jamaica at all.
1910 U.S. Dept. Agric., Bur. Plant Industry Bull. No. 164 27 It is not always easy to distinguish between the dasheens and the taros, for some of the dasheens have a tendency to throw sprouts from the tips of the tubers.
1913 W. H. Page Let. 26 Jan. in B. J. Hendrick Life of W. H. Page (1922) I. iv. 128 I'm going to grow dasheens.
1918 Bull. Dept. Agric. Trinidad 17 29 The name dasheen appears to be a corruption of the French phrase ‘de la Chine’.
1953 P. L. Fermor Violins of Saint-Jacques 88 Living on dasheen and yam and breadfruit they had uprooted from the plantations.
1968 J. W. Purseglove Trop. Crops II. 587 Some..also provide temporary lateral shade, as do Xanthosoma spp. (tannias), Colocasia spp. (dasheen and eddoes).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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