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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Colocasia esculenta, raised as a food primarily for its corm, which distantly resembles potato.
2. 2
   Any of several other species with similar corms and growth habit in Colocasia, Alocasia etc.
3. 3
   Food from a taro plant.

Proper Noun

1. 1
   A barangay of Sipocot, Camarines Sur, Philippines.

Etymology

From Tagalog gabi, from Proto-Philippine *gabi.

Related phrases

colocasia esculenta

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