yam plant

Questions about yam plant

What does yam plant mean?

yam plant means "any of a number of tropical vines of the genus Dioscorea many having edible tuberous roots".

What is another word for yam plant?

Close synonyms include 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 yam plant a common word?

yam plant is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.