Taro (disambiguation)

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Plants

Taro is any of several tropical plants used as root vegetables:

• Most commonly, Colocasia esculenta
• Alocasia species, especially Alocasia macrorrhizos (giant taro)
• Cyrtosperma merkusii (swamp taro), called Pulaka in Tuvalu and Babai in Kiribati
• Xanthosoma sagittifolium

Taro may also refer to:

Places

• Taro (river), a river in northern Italy
• Taro (department), a former administrative division of the First French Empire in present Italy, named after the Taro River
• Tarō, Iwate, Japan (田老町), former town in Shimohei District, Iwate Prefecture (now part of Miyako)
• Taro Island, community in the Solomon Islands, capital of Choiseul Province
• Tarou, Dominica, a small village in western Dominica

Other uses

• Tarō (given name), a Japanese male given name
• Volkswagen Taro, a Volkswagen rebadge of the Toyota Hilux in Europe
• Taro (snack) (Thai: ทาโร), a brand of dried fish snack popular in Thailand
• Taro, the monetary unit in the online game Cartoon Network Universe: FusionFall
• Ultraman Taro, a 1973 tokusatsu television series
• 48 Infantry Division Taro, an Italian infantry division of World War II
• "Taro", a song by the British band Alt-J from their 2012 album An Awesome Wave
• Gerda Taro, a war photographer
• Taro Pharmaceuticals, a research-based pharmaceutical manufacturer

See also

• Tarof, Persian customs

References