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potato (Solanum tuberosum)

sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)

hornworm (caterpillar of a hawk moth); (hairless) caterpillar

taro (Colocasia esculenta); dasheen; eddo

roasted sweet potato; baked sweet potato

Japanese yam (Dioscorea japonica)

taro (Colocasia esculenta); cocoyam; dasheen

uncool; bad-looking; unattractive; unsophisticated; provincial; hick

candied sweet potato

rough potato (Metaplexis japonica)

seed potato

sweet-potato vines

Japanese yam (Dioscorea japonica)

purple fleshed sweet potato (any one of several different such)

red-colored jersey (esp. school PE uniform)

Japanese yam (Dioscorea japonica)

(bar of) sweet-potato paste

sweet potato shop; sweet potato seller

yam

Chinese yam (Dioscorea batatas)

sweet potatoes baked in hot stones or pebbles

sweetened sweet potato fries; fried strips of sweet potato coated with sugar

Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus); topinambur; girasol; girasole

Chinese yam (variety of Dioscorea opposita); Japanese yam (variety of Dioscorea japonica)

giant elephant ear (species of taro, Colocasia gigantea)

jointed woodsorrel (Oxalis articulata)

hick; country bumpkin; yokel

dried sweet potato; satsuma sweet potato steamed, sliced and dried

sweet potato shop; sweet potato seller

outdoor party where guests cook various types of vegetables (esp. in Tōhoku); (lit.) stewed potato party

secondary taro corm; daughter taro corm; taro cormel; taro bud

stamp made with a potato

to be jostling against each other

Irish Cobbler potato

dried taro stem

tubercle

sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)

minor taro root; taro cormlet; taro cormel

shrimp-shaped taro variety

var. of taro with long purple stalks

dish of potatoes first boiled, then spun around while fried in a bowl (making them look as if covered in powder)

mother tuber of a taro; taro corm; parent taro

purple yam; water yam (Dioscorea alata); purple fleshed sweet potato (any one of several different such); Conus pauperculus (species of cone shell)

potato (Solanum tuberosum)

sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas); potato (Solanum tuberosum)

sweet potato (any of a number of different cultivars with red skin)

taros flavoured with miso and grilled on skewers; parent-child incest

being ignorant of the ways of the world; knowing nothing; (lit.) not being able to tell if a yam is boiled or not

taccad (any plant of family Taccaceae)

type of taro originally from Sulawesi, has large tubers with red eyes

shrimp-shaped taro variety

lesser yam (Dioscorea esculenta)

jicama (Pachyrhizus erosus); yam bean; Mexican turnip

Metaplexis japonica

type of taro originally from Sulawesi

tertiary taro corm; taro cormlet