Tarn vs Taro - What's the difference?
tarn | taro |
(Northern England) A small mountain lake, especially in Northern England.
* 1839, (1997),
Colocasia esculenta , raised as a food primarily for its corm, which distantly resembles potato.
Any of several other species with similar corms and growth habit in Colocasia'', ''Alocasia etc.
Food from a taro plant.
As nouns the difference between tarn and taro
is that tarn is tower while taro is (l) (set of playing cards used for divination).As a verb tarn
is .tarn
English
Noun
(en noun)1,
- It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene, of the details of the picture, would be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression; and, acting upon this idea, I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled lustre by the dwelling, and gazed down—but with a shudder even more thrilling than before—upon the remodelled and inverted images of the gray sedge, and the ghastly tree-stems, and the vacant and eye-like windows.