Word Meanings - YAUTIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In Porto Rico, any of several araceous plants or their starchy edible roots, which are cooked and eaten like yams or potatoes, as the taro.

Related words: (words related to YAUTIA)

• COOKSHOP
  An eating house. "A subterranean cookshop." Macaulay.
• EDIBLENESS
  Suitableness for being eaten.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• PORTOS
  See PORTASS
• COOKROOM
  A room for cookery; a kitchen; the galley or caboose of a ship. Sir W. Raleigh.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• ROOTSTOCK
  A perennial underground stem, producing leafly s
• COOKEE
  A female cook.
• SEVERALITY
  Each particular taken singly; distinction. Bp. Hall.
• SEVERALLY
  Separately; distinctly; apart from others; individually. There must be an auditor to check and revise each severally by itself. De Quincey.
• SEVERAL
  1. Separate; distinct; particular; single. Each several ship a victory did gain. Dryden. Each might his several province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand. Pope. 2. Diverse; different; various. Spenser. Habits and faculties,
• SEVERALTY
  A state of separation from the rest, or from all others; a holding by individual right. Forests which had never been owned in severalty. Bancroft. Estate in severalty , an estate which the tenant holds in his own right, without being joined in
• COOKBOOK
  A book of directions and receipts for cooking; a cookery book. "Just How": a key to the cookbooks. Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney.
• COOKY
  A small, flat, sweetened cake of various kinds. (more info) to G. kuchen, E. cake; or cf. OE. coket, prob., a sort of cake, and
• COOKMAID
  A female servant or maid who dresses provisions and assists the cook.
• EDIBLE
  Fit to be eaten as food; eatable; esculent; as, edible fishes. Bacon. -- n.
• PORTOIR
  One who, or that which, bears; hence, one who, or that which, produces. Branches . . . which were portoirs, and bare grapes. Holland.
• STARCHY
  Consisting of starch; resembling starch; stiff; precise.
• PORTOISE
  The gunwale of a ship. To lower the yards a-portoise, to lower them to the gunwale. -- To ride a portoise, to ride an anchor with the lower yards and topmasts struck or lowered, as in a gale of wind.
• COOK
  To make the noise of the cuckoo. Constant cuckoos cook on every side. The Silkworms .
• INCREDIBLENESS
  Incredibility.
• WINTER-BEATEN
  Beaten or harassed by the severe weather of winter. Spenser.
• THREATEN
  1. To utter threats against; to menace; to inspire with apprehension; to alarm, or attempt to alarm, as with the promise of something evil or disagreeable; to warn. Let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.
• PEGROOTS
  See SETTERWORT
• UNCREDIBLE
  Incredible. Bacon.
• OBEDIBLE
  Obedient. Bp. Hall.
• CREDIBLE
  Capable of being credited or believed; worthy of belief; entiled to confidence; trustworthy. Things are made credible either by the known condition and quality of the utterer or by the manifest likelihood of truth in themselves. Hooker.
• THREATENER
  One who threatens. Shak.