Chinese yam

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English

Dioscorea polystachya tubers at a market

Noun

Chinese yam (countable and uncountable, plural Chinese yams)

  1. Dioscorea polystachya, the cinnamon vine
  2. The tuber of the vine, used for food; nagaimo, Chinese potato.

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