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satsumaimo

Today it means: A Japanese form of sweet potato. Full definition →

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Borrowed from Japanese 薩(さつ)摩(ま)芋(いも) (Satsuma imo, literally “Satsuma potato”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.