Chinese yam

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English

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Dioscorea polystachya tubers at a market

Noun

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Chinese yam (countable and uncountable, plural Chinese yams)

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

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