Vegetable
Vegetable noun - Any of various herbaceous plants cultivated for an edible part such as the fruit or the root of the beet or the leaf of spinach or the seeds of bean plants or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower.
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Yam and vegetable are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Yam" instead a noun "Vegetable".
Yam
Yam noun - Any of a number of tropical vines of the genus Dioscorea many having edible tuberous roots.
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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.
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