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Eddy vs Eddo - What's the difference?

eddy | eddo |

As a proper noun eddy

is a diminutive of edward, edgar, edwin, or other male given names beginning with ed-.

As a noun eddo is

a plant, a variety of taro, having edible starchy tubers.

eddy

English

Noun

(eddies)
  • A current of air or water running back, or in an opposite direction to the main current.
  • A circular current; a whirlpool.
  • * Dryden
    • And smiling eddies dimpled on the main.
  • * Addison
    • Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play.

    See also

    * countercurrent * dust devil

    Verb

  • To form an eddy; to move in, or as if in, an eddy; to move in a circle.
  • * Wordsworth
    • Eddying round and round they sink.

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    eddo

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A plant, a variety of taro, having edible starchy tubers.
  • The tubers of this plant.