Sweet potato
Sweet potato noun - Pantropical vine widely cultivated in several varieties for its large sweet tuberous root with orange flesh.
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Yam and sweet potato are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Yam" instead a noun phrase "Sweet potato".
Yam
Yam noun - Sweet potato with deep orange flesh that remains moist when baked.
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The problem is that a yam is a completely different vegetable (Dioscorea spp.) that 'resembles' the sweet potato only in that it is an edible root; sweet potatoes are generally about six inches long, thin-skinned, and related to morning glories.
Source: Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit" - Sassy Black Woman: Queenie Sweet Potato comes across this way, though she's an anthropomorphic yam.
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Potato Head Show: Given her voice and personality, Queenie Sweet Potato comes across this way, though she's an anthropomorphic yam.
Source: Sassy Black Woman
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Yam and Sweet potato. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 13, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/sweet_potato/yam
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