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CHINESE YAM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Hardy Chinese vine naturalized in United States and cultivated as an ornamental climber for its glossy heart-shaped cinnamon-scented leaves and in the tropics for its edible tubers
Synonyms:
Chinese yam; cinnamon vine; Dioscorea batata
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Chinese 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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