air potato

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   yam of tropical Africa and Asia cultivated for it large tubers

   SynonymsDioscorea bulbifera

   Broaderyam

Questions about air potato

What does air potato mean?

air potato means "yam of tropical Africa and Asia cultivated for it large tubers".

What is another word for air potato?

Close synonyms include Dioscorea bulbifera. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is air potato a common word?

air potato is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.