芋

Irish Cobbler potato

rough potato (Metaplexis japonica)

tubercle

Includes both 子芋 and 孫芋

minor taro root; taro cormlet; taro cormel

Colloquial; As 芋の子を洗うよう, etc.

(pool, etc.) being jam-packed with people

sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)

var. of taro with long purple stalks

mother tuber of a taro; taro corm; parent taro

cone shell (Conus geographus)

purple yam (Dioscorea alata); water yam

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

Word usually written using kana alone

Conus pauperculus (species of cone shell)

shrimp-shaped taro variety

Japanese yam (Dioscorea japonica)

Chinese yam (variety of Dioscorea opposita)

Japanese yam (variety of Dioscorea japonica)

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

sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)

potato (Solanum tuberosum)

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

variety of sweet potato with red skin and sweet yellow flesh (product of the Kawagoe region)

jointed woodsorrel (Oxalis articulata)

giant elephant ear (species of taro, Colocasia gigantea)

calla (Zantedeschia aethiopica)

Food, cooking

taros flavoured with miso and grilled on skewers

Colloquial

parent-child incest

variety of acrid-tasting taro

taccad (any plant of family Taccaceae)

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

tertiary taro corm; taro cormlet