dioscorea bulbifera

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   yam of tropical Africa and Asia cultivated for it large tubers

   Synonymsair potato

   Broaderyam

Questions about dioscorea bulbifera

What does dioscorea bulbifera mean?

dioscorea bulbifera means "yam of tropical Africa and Asia cultivated for it large tubers".

What is another word for dioscorea bulbifera?

Close synonyms include air potato. 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 bulbifera a common word?

dioscorea bulbifera 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.