ELEPHANT YAM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does elephant yam mean? 

• ELEPHANT YAM (noun)
  The noun ELEPHANT YAM has 1 sense:

1. putrid-smelling aroid of southeastern Asia (especially the Philippines) grown for its edible tuber

  Familiarity information: ELEPHANT YAM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELEPHANT YAM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Putrid-smelling aroid of southeastern Asia (especially the Philippines) grown for its edible tuber

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Amorphophallus campanulatus; Amorphophallus paeonifolius; elephant yam; pungapung; telingo potato

Hypernyms ("elephant yam" is a kind of...):

aroid; arum (any plant of the family Araceae; have small flowers massed on a spadix surrounded by a large spathe)

Domain region:

Philippines; Republic of the Philippines (a republic on the Philippine Islands; achieved independence from the United States in 1946)

Holonyms ("elephant yam" is a member of...):

genus Amorphophallus (genus of large tropical east Asian cormous aroids: devil's tongue; snake palm)