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Taro (Colocasia esculenta ) is a tropical plant grown primarily for its edible corms.
Taro may also refer to:
Plants
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 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
Topics referred to by the same term