Definition of Chinese yam

1. Noun. 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.

Exact synonyms: Cinnamon Vine, Dioscorea Batata
Generic synonyms: Yam, Yam Plant

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chinese Yam

Chinese snooker
Chinese squeeze
Chinese squeezes
Chinese truffle
Chinese truffles
Chinese unicorn
Chinese unicorns
Chinese water chestnut
Chinese wax
Chinese whispers
Chinese white cabbage
Chinese white pear
Chinese white pears
Chinese wistaria
Chinese wood oil
Chinese yam
Chineselike
Chineseman
Chineseness
Chinesey
Chinggisid
Chinggisids
Chingisid
Chinglish
Chingpo
Chink
Chinkiang vinegar
Chinks
Chino-Japanese War

Literary usage of Chinese yam

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Illinois as it is: Its History, Geography, Statistics, Constitution, Laws by Frederick Gerhard (1857)
"chinese yam. (Dioscorea Batatas?) This tuber has not been cultivated, as yet, in the State; but as it can be raised in Illinois, we think it a duty to call ..."

2. The Forage and Fiber Crops in America by Thomas Forsyth Hunt (1907)
"chinese yam (Dios- torea divaricata Blanco; D. batatas Decne).—"The roots are quite large, club-shaped, often reaching three feet in length with a diameter ..."

3. The Cultivatorby New York State Agricultural Society by New York State Agricultural Society (1858)
"The chinese yam.—From the account of the chinese yam, as published in the ... is that the chinese yam, a* a food-producing plant, ie worthless in this ..."

4. Epitome of gardening by Thomas Moore (1881)
"The chinese yam, Dioscorea Batatas, is a fleshy-rooted peren nial climber, native of China. It has annual stems, and deeply penetrating thick club-shaped ..."

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