Dasheens

/dæˈʃiːnz/ noun

Definition

Plural of dasheen; multiple plants of the taro family or multiple tubers of this plant.

Etymology

From dasheen + -s (plural marker). The plural form is used when referring to multiple dasheen plants or their edible portions.

Kelly Says

The plural 'dasheens' is straightforward, but it's interesting that English adapted the Creole singular 'dasheen' without much change, while other food words from colonized regions got completely anglicized (like 'potatoes' from 'batata'), showing variation in how colonizer languages absorbed borrowed vocabulary.

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