chinese yam

Questions about chinese yam

What is another word for chinese yam?

It depends which chinese yam you mean. In the sense “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”, the synonyms are cinnamon vine, Dioscorea batata. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of chinese yam?

WordNet records no antonym for chinese yam. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for chinese yam come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

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• Full entry for chinese yamAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for chinese yamWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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