Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun chinese_yam

1 sense of chinese yam

Sense 1
cinnamon vine, Chinese yam, Dioscorea batata -- (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)
       => yam, yam plant -- (any of a number of tropical vines of the genus Dioscorea many having edible tuberous roots)