Yautia

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Yautia \Yau*ti"a\, n. [Native name in the Antilles.]
     In Puerto Rico, any of several araceous plants or their
     starchy edible roots, which are cooked and eaten like yams or
     potatoes, as the taro.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  yautia
       n : tropical American aroid having edible tubers that are cooked
           and eaten like yams or potatoes [syn: {tannia}, {spoonflower},
            {malanga}, {Xanthosoma sagittifolium}, {Xanthosoma
           atrovirens}]