elephant yam

1. 1.

   putrid-smelling aroid of southeastern Asia (especially the Philippines) grown for its edible tuber

   Synonymspungapungtelingo potatoAmorphophallus paeonifoliusAmorphophallus campanulatus

   Broaderarum

   Part ofgenus Amorphophallus

   Philippines

Questions about elephant yam

What does elephant yam mean?

elephant yam means "putrid-smelling aroid of southeastern Asia (especially the Philippines) grown for its edible tuber".

What is another word for elephant yam?

Close synonyms include pungapung, telingo potato, Amorphophallus paeonifolius, Amorphophallus campanulatus. 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 elephant yam a common word?

elephant 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.