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True yam
Meaning
Noun
●
In Dioscoreales order plants & Root vegetables:
Any
plant
in the
genus
Dioscorea, or its
tubers
, so called to
distinguish
them from the
sweet potato
(Ipomoea
batatas
)
varieties
known as
yams
in the US, and from the New Zealand
yam
, Oxalis tuberosa .
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