'Yautia' definitions:
Definition of 'yautia'
From: WordNet
noun
Tropical American aroid having edible tubers that are cooked and eaten like yams or potatoes [syn: yautia, tannia, spoonflower, malanga, Xanthosoma sagittifolium, Xanthosoma atrovirens]
Definition of 'Yautia'
From: GCIDE
- Yautia \Yau*ti"a\, n. [Native name in the Antilles.] In Puerto Rico, any of several araceous plants or their starchy edible roots, which are cooked and eaten like yams or potatoes, as the taro. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]