What does chinese yam mean?

chinese yam means "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".

What is another word for chinese yam?

Close synonyms include cinnamon vine, Dioscorea batata. 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 chinese yam a common word?

chinese yam 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.

Chinese yam — meaning and 2 synonyms

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1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
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
Synonymscinnamon vine Dioscorea batata
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Questions about chinese yam

What does chinese yam mean?: chinese yam means "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".
What is another word for chinese yam?: Close synonyms include cinnamon vine, Dioscorea batata. 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.

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