Dioscorea
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Dioscorea villosa
Translingual
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Etymology
New Latin, from Ancient Greek after Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης (Pedánios Dioskourídēs, “Dioscorides”)
Proper noun
Dioscorea f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Dioscoreaceae – tropical and warm temperate flowering plants, including yams.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, monocots – clades; Dioscoreales – order; Dioscoreaceae – family
Hyponyms
- (genus): Dioscorea villosa (syn. Dioscorea sativa; wild yam, fourleaf yam) – type species; Dioscorea alata (purple yam, greater yam), Dioscorea arachidna, Dioscorea bulbifera (air potato, air yam, bitter yam, cheeky yam, potato yam, aerial yam, parsnip yam), Dioscorea cayenensis (yellow yam), Dioscorea communis (black bryony), Dioscorea dugesii, Dioscorea dumetorum (bitter yam), Dioscorea elephantipes (elephant's foot, Hottentot bread), Dioscorea esculenta (lesser yam), Dioscorea filiformis, Dioscorea hispida (intoxicating yam, Indian three-leaf yam), Dioscorea japonica (Japanese yam), Dioscorea mexicana (Mexican yam), Dioscorea oppositifolia (betel yam, Chinese yam), Dioscorea panthaica, Dioscorea pentaphylla (fiveleaf yam), Dioscorea polystachya (Chinese yam), Dioscorea pyrifolia, Dioscorea septemloba (seven-lobed yam, Foochow yam), Dioscorea tokoro, Dioscorea tomentosa (thorny yam), Dioscorea trifida (Indian yam, cush-cush yam, yampee), Dioscorea wallichii; for other species see Dioscorea at The Plant List.
See also
Further reading
Dioscorea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Dioscorea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Dioscorea on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Dioscorea species names in many languages
