yam : Idioms & Phrases

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Chinese yam

  • noun hardy Chinese vine naturalized in United States and cultivated as an ornamental climber for its glossy heart-shaped cinnamon-scented leaves and in the tropics for its edible tubers
    Dioscorea batata; cinnamon vine.
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  • a plant (Dioscorea Batatas) with a long and slender tuber, hardier than most of the other species.
Webster 1913

elephant yam

  • noun putrid-smelling aroid of southeastern Asia (especially the Philippines) grown for its edible tuber
    telingo potato; pungapung; Amorphophallus campanulatus; Amorphophallus paeonifolius.
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water yam

  • noun grown in Australasia and Polynesia for its large root with fine edible white flesh
    water yam; Dioscorea alata.
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white yam

  • noun grown in Australasia and Polynesia for its large root with fine edible white flesh
    water yam; Dioscorea alata.
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Wild yam

  • noun having a rhizome formerly dried and used to treat rheumatism or liver disorders
    Dioscorea paniculata.
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  • . (a) A common plant (Dioscorea villosa) of the Eastern United States, having a hard and knotty rootstock. (b) An orchidaceous plant (Gastrodia sesamoides) of Australia and Tasmania.
Webster 1913

yam bean

  • noun twining plant of Amazon basin having large edible roots
    potato bean; Pachyrhizus tuberosus.
  • noun Central American twining plant with edible roots and pods; large tubers are eaten raw or cooked especially when young and young pods must be thoroughly cooked; pods and seeds also yield rotenone and oils
    Pachyrhizus erosus.
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yam family

  • noun yams
    Dioscoreaceae; family Dioscoreaceae.
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yam plant

  • noun any of a number of tropical vines of the genus Dioscorea many having edible tuberous roots
    yam.
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