一切經音義 8.80

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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).