一切經音義 8.80

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或芋（于遇反韻英芋蹲鴟草也蘇敬本草云芋一名茨菰約有六種差別所謂青芋紫芋真芋白芋連禪芋野芋並皆有毒其中唯野芋最甚食之煞人以灰水煑之乃可食也史記云岷山之下蹲鴟得之至老不飢是也說文大葉實根驚人故謂之芋從草于聲也）。

Or taro (或芋: [the second character is] pronounced 于 + 遇 fanqie; Yunying says: taro is dunzhi grass; Su Jing's Materia Medica says: taro is also named cigu; there are about six kinds: green taro, purple taro, true taro, white taro, lianchan taro, and wild taro; all of them are toxic, among which wild taro is the most severe, fatal if consumed, and can only be eaten when boiled in ash water; the Shiji says: 'Below Mount Min there is dunzhi; obtaining it prevents hunger into old age', which refers to this; Shuowen says: large leaves and solid roots that amaze people, hence called 芋; it takes cao [草] as its classifier and 于 as its phonetic).