Usually means: Edible tuber, staple in Asia.
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  1. Chinese yam: Merriam-Webster
  2. Chinese yam: Vocabulary.com
  3. chinese yam: Wordnik
  4. Chinese yam: Wiktionary
  5. Chinese yam, chinese yam: Dictionary.com
  6. Chinese yam: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. Chinese yam: Rhymezone
  8. chinese yam: FreeDictionary.org
  9. chinese yam: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. Chinese yam: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Chinese yam)

▸ noun:  A cinnamon vine (Dioscorea polystachya),
▸ noun:  A tuber of the vine, used for food; nagaimo, Chinese potato.

Similar:
cinnamon vine, dioscorea batata, Japanese mountain yam, yamaimo, true yam, purple yam, colicroot, yam bean, nagaimo, Chinese cassia, more...

Opposite:
non-yam, non-tuber, non-root vegetable

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Similar:
cinnamon vine, dioscorea batata, Japanese mountain yam, yamaimo, true yam, purple yam, colicroot, yam bean, nagaimo, Chinese cassia, more...

Opposite:
non-yam, non-tuber, non-root vegetable



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