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

1 sense of dioscorea alata

Sense 1
white yam, water yam, Dioscorea alata -- (grown in Australasia and Polynesia for its large root with fine edible white flesh)
       => yam, yam plant -- (any of a number of tropical vines of the genus Dioscorea many having edible tuberous roots)