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WATER YAM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does water yam mean? 

WATER YAM (noun)
  The noun WATER YAM has 1 sense:

1. grown in Australasia and Polynesia for its large root with fine edible white fleshplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


WATER YAM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Grown in Australasia and Polynesia for its large root with fine edible white flesh

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Dioscorea alata; water yam; white yam

Hypernyms ("water yam" 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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