Home
Random
Log in
Settings
Donations
About Wiktionary
Disclaimers
Search
true yam
Language
Watch
Edit
English
edit
Noun
edit
true
yam
(
plural
true yams
)
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
.