Word.ws English Dictionary

elephant foot yam

elephant foot yam noun: a plant of the species Amorphophallus paeoniifolius, similar to the titan arum, cultivated for food.

elephant foot yam: a plant of the species Amorphophallus paeoniifolius, similar to the titan arum, cultivated for food
Image: Aravind Sivaraj, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

elephant foot yam (plural elephant foot yams)

  1. A plant of the species Amorphophallus paeoniifolius, similar to the titan arum, cultivated for food.
    Synonyms:
    suran

elephant foot yam meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali

elephant foot yam in Hindi

Amorphophallus paeoniifolius
जिमीकंद jimīkand

elephant foot yam in Tamil

Amorphophallus paeoniifolius
சேனை cēṉai

elephant foot yam in Marathi

elephant foot yam
सुरण suraṇ

elephant foot yam in Bengali

Amorphophallus paeoniifolius
ওলকচু ōlkocu, ওল ōl
More languagesFewer languages
elephant foot yam in Telugu
కంద kanda
elephant foot yam in Malayalam
ചേന cēna
elephant foot yam in Gujarati
સૂરણ sūraṇ
elephant foot yam in Odia
ଓଲୁଅ olua
elephant foot yam in Sanskrit
आलु ālu
elephant foot yam in Sinhala
කිඩාරං kiḍāraṁ
elephant foot yam in Tagalog
pungapung
elephant foot yam in Malay
sarek, ubi sarek, ubi kekek, ubi ular
elephant foot yam in Indonesian
suweg
elephant foot yam in Thai
บุกคางคก buk khāngkhk
elephant foot yam in Vietnamese
nưa chuông

Synonyms of elephant foot yam

Forms of elephant foot yam

pluralelephant foot yams
alternative formelephant-foot yam

Questions about elephant foot yam

What does elephant foot yam mean?
Elephant foot yam means a plant of the species Amorphophallus paeoniifolius, similar to the titan arum, cultivated for food.
What is elephant foot yam in Hindi?
Elephant foot yam in Hindi is जिमीकंद (jimīkand). See Elephant foot yam meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is elephant foot yam?
Elephant foot yam is a noun.
What is the plural of elephant foot yam?
The plural of elephant foot yam is elephant foot yams.

Words near elephant foot yam in the dictionary

  1. elephant ear
  2. elephant ear tree
  3. elephant ears
  4. elephant fish
  5. elephant fishes
  6. elephant foot yam
  7. elephant foot yams
  8. elephant garlic
  9. elephant grass
  10. elephant grasses
  11. elephant gun

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: elephant foot yam (page history and authors); सुरण (Marathi) (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.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-elephant foot yam.wav.

Cite this entry: “elephant foot yam.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/elephant_foot_yam. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.