| yautia | (n) tropical American aroid having edible tubers that are cooked and eaten like yams or potatoes, Syn. tannia, malanga, spoonflower, Xanthosoma sagittifolium, Xanthosoma atrovirens |
| Yautia | 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. ] |