Etymology

yamaimo

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Today it means: Dioscorea japonica, an edible Japanese yam. Full definition →

Japanese 山芋
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The story

  1. Japanese · borrowed from山芋
  2. English todayyamaimo

From Japanese 山芋.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.