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rough potato (Metaplexis japonica)

sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)

var. of taro with long purple stalks

mother tuber of a taro; taro corm; parent taro

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)

night-scented lily (Alocasia odora); giant upright elephant ear

Food, cooking

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

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)

potato (Solanum tuberosum)

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

dried giant elephant ear stem from Higo province (eaten or used as a sex aid)

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

giant elephant ear (species of taro, Colocasia gigantea)

calla (Zantedeschia aethiopica)

tertiary taro corm; taro cormlet

shrimp-shaped taro variety

jicama (Pachyrhizus erosus); yam bean; Mexican turnip

taro variety cultivated in paddy fields

Company name

Kichiimo (chain of sweet potato restaurants)

variety of acrid-tasting taro