dioscorea alata

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   grown in Australasia and Polynesia for its large root with fine edible white flesh

   Synonymswhite yamwater yam

   Broaderyam

Questions about dioscorea alata

What does dioscorea alata mean?

dioscorea alata means "grown in Australasia and Polynesia for its large root with fine edible white flesh".

What is another word for dioscorea alata?

Close synonyms include white yam, water yam. 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 dioscorea alata a common word?

dioscorea alata 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.