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Chinese yam

Chinese yam noun: a cinnamon vine (Dioscorea polystachya),.

chinese yam: a cinnamon vine (Dioscorea polystachya),
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Noun

Chinese yam (countable and uncountable, plural Chinese yams)

  1. A cinnamon vine (Dioscorea polystachya),
  2. A tuber of the vine, used for food; nagaimo, Chinese potato.

Chinese yam meaning in Tamil

Chinese yam in Tamil

சாரக்கிழங்கு

Forms of Chinese yam

pluralChinese yams

Questions about Chinese yam

What does Chinese yam mean?
Chinese yam means a cinnamon vine (Dioscorea polystachya),.
What is Chinese yam in Tamil?
Chinese yam in Tamil is சாரக்கிழங்கு. See Chinese yam meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is Chinese yam?
Chinese yam is a noun.
What is the plural of Chinese yam?
The plural of Chinese yam is Chinese yams.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Chinese yam (page history and authors); chinese yam (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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