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AIR POTATO
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Dictionary entry overview: What does air potato mean?
• AIR POTATO (noun)
The noun AIR POTATO has 1 sense:
1. yam of tropical Africa and Asia cultivated for it large tubers
Familiarity information: AIR POTATO used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Yam of tropical Africa and Asia cultivated for it large tubers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
air potato; Dioscorea bulbifera
Hypernyms ("air potato" is a kind of...):
yam; yam plant (any of a number of tropical vines of the genus Dioscorea many having edible tuberous roots)
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