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Taro vs Tarot - What's the difference?

taro | tarot |

As nouns the difference between taro and tarot

is that taro is Colocasia esculenta, raised as a food primarily for its corm, which distantly resembles potato while tarot is a card game played in various different variations.

As a proper noun Taro

is a river and valley in Italy.

taro

English

Noun

(en-noun) (wikipedia taro)
  • 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.

    • Synonyms

    * (Colocasia esculenta) colocasia, elephant ears * (similar plants) * (edible portion) dasheen

    Hyponyms

    * (similar plants) giant taro, Alocasia'' and species, especially ; ''Xanthosoma sagittifolium

    Derived terms

    * Chinese taro, chinese taro * giant swamp taro * giant taro * metallic taro * swamp taro * taro flying frog

    See also

    * eddo

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    tarot

    English

    (wikipedia tarot)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (singular or plural) A card game played in various different variations.
  • Any of the set of 78 playing cards (divided into five suits, including one of permanent trumps), often used for mystical divination.

    • Quotations

    * 1987, Hans Hahn, “Logic, Mathematics, and Knowledge,” in Unified Science, Brian McGuiness ed. *: [...] it is not that I cannot convince him, but that I must refuse to go on talking with him, just as I shall refuse to go on playing tarot with a partner who insists on taking my fool with the moon. * 1996, Jan Potocki, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0140445803&id=lRbXDsA9u4AC&pg=PA333&lpg=PA333&sig=s0cNY_83AgaK_TWOEA1qpv95tuQ] *: They took me to her and then we all came back to the portal, where we started playing tarot . *: As we were engrossed in this game, which requires quite a lot of attention, a well-dressed man appeared and seemed to examine us all closely, first one then another. * 2001, Donald Davidson, Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0199246297&id=hGm9Dj5OmF8C&pg=PA265&lpg=PA265&sig=rjtFvOxVBgk1cro3fLQ5bLn9Eqw] *: In explaining what it is to play tarot we could not leave out of account the rules that define the game; [...]

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