sweet potato vs yam

sweet potato

• A tropical perennial American vine, Ipomoea batatas, having a fleshy tuber. 

• The tuber of this plant cooked as a vegetable. 

• An ocarina. 

yam

• A sweet potato; a tuber from the species Ipomoea batatas. 

• An orange-brown colour, like the flesh of the yam. 

• A potato. 

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• The edible, starchy, tuberous root of that plant, a tropical staple food. 

• Any climbing vine of the genus Dioscorea in the Eastern and Western hemispheres, usually cultivated. 

• A oca; a tuber from the species Oxalis tuberosa. 

• Taro. 

• To eat.