yam

• This healthful root vegetable is consistently misidentified as a yam, which is a much larger tuber grown in tropical climates, but with a similar sweetness and starchy texture. —  Gazette.com :
• Today: a satanic yam, a baby gibbon, a jet pack, and Charles Bronson. —  Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
• This healthy root vegetable is consistently misidentified as a yam, which is a much larger tuber grown in tropical climates, but with a similar sweetness and starchy texture.
• The yam is the root of a climbing plant which David called the Dioscoreo-sativa_. —  In the Wilds of Africa
• "I have to work in my yam-plot to-day, and must deliver Molly to her mother They both rose and descended the slope that led to the village, chatting as they went Now, although the native men were of one mind as to the slaying of the Englishmen, they seemed to have some difference of opinion as to the best method of putting their bloody design in execution. —  The Lonely Island The Refuge of the Mutineers

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