colocase
French, noun/kɔ.lɔ.kaz/
colocase is spelled C-O-L-O-C-A-S-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 81 million words in written French, the 282,260th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Colocase is a French feminine noun meaning “taro (plant)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Plante tropicale de la famille des Aracées (Colocasia antiquorum et Colocasia esculenta), aussi appelée taro…”.
What does colocase mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininetaro (plant)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Plante tropicale de la famille des Aracées (Colocasia antiquorum et Colocasia esculenta), aussi appelée taro, dont le rhizome comestible, appelé aussi taro, fournit une farine riche en amidon.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of colocase
- colocases plural
- colocasie
- colocazia
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce colocase?
- /kɔ.lɔ.kaz/
- \kɔ.lɔ.kaz\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is colocase in French?
colocase appears about once in every 81 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).