Taro (disambiguation)
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Taro (Colocasia esculenta) is a tropical plant grown primarily for its edible corms.
Taro may also refer to:
Plants
[edit]- Alocasia macrorrhizos, giant taro
- Cyrtosperma merkusii, swamp taro
- Xanthosoma sagittifolium, blue taro
Places
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Tarō (given name), a Japanese name
- David Taro (born 1984), Solomon Islands soccer defender
- Gerda Taro (1910–1937), German war photographer
- Volkswagen Taro, a pickup truck, rebadge of the Toyota Hilux
- Ultraman Taro, a 1973 television series
- 48 Infantry Division Taro, an Italian infantry division of World War II
- "Taro", a song by the British band alt-J from the 2012 album An Awesome Wave
- Taro Pharmaceuticals, a pharmaceutical manufacturer
- Territorial Army Reserve of Officers, former name of the U.K. Army Reserve
- The monetary unit in the online game Cartoon Network Universe: FusionFall
- Taro, a dog that survived a winter in Antarctica; see Taro and Jiro
See also
[edit]- Asashio Tarō (disambiguation)
- Taarof, Persian customs
- All pages with titles beginning with Taro