NOUN
- tropical American aroid having edible tubers that are cooked and eaten like yams or potatoes
How To Use tannia In A Sentence
- Upon these interjections, placable flicks of the lionly tail addressed to Britannia the Ruler, who expected him in some mildish way to lash terga cauda in retiring, Sir Willoughby Patterne passed from a land of alien manners; and ever after he spoke of America respectfully and pensively, with a tail tucked in, as it were. The Egoist
- A familiar sight, almost opposite Bedford Hospital, is the Britannia Works archway, the area behind which has been wasteland for at least ten years.
- The most frequently quoted remark was one made by the great English engineer Robert Stephenson, builder of the famous Britannia railroad bridge, a tubular iron bridge, over the Menai Strait the trains ran through a succession of enormous iron boxes set on stone piers. The Great Bridge
- The new officers passed out from Britannia Royal Naval College on Thursday 1 August.
- Escapade basically provides the experience of taking off and landing a commercial airliner, aboard Britannia's 737 flight simulator.
- At nine o'clock that brilliant morning the Britannia lifted off, and he spoke to Berna. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
- London was the height of hip, with a posse of hot young designers blazing a path through the jaded fashion pack and spawning the ‘Cool Britannia’ era.
- A fluffy cloud above the majestic Royal Yacht Britannia marks it out as a centre piece.
- After the Germanic conquest of Britannia, the Anglo-Saxon invaders established a heptarchy of kingdoms across the island, pushing the Celtic Britons into modern Ireland, Wales, Cornwall, Scotland and Brittany. Offa's Dyke
- The change of the name Armorica to Britannia, and from Britannia to Bolougne-Sur-Mer St. Patrick's Native Town