Yam vs Plantain - What's the difference?
yam | plantain |
(botany) Any climbing vine of the genus Dioscorea in the Eastern and Western hemispheres, usually cultivated
The edible, starchy, tuberous root of that plant, a tropical staple food.
(US) A sweet potato; a tuber from the species Ipomoea batatas .
(Scotland) Potato.
A plant of the genus Plantago , with a rosette of sessile leaves about 10 cm long with a narrow part instead of a petiole, and with a spike inflorescence with the flower spacing varying widely among the species. See also psyllium.
* 1653 , (Nicholas Culpeper), The English Physician Enlarged , Folio Society 2007, p. 225:
*2003 , (Michael Hofmann), translating Ernst Jünger, Storm of Steel , Penguin 2004, p. 41:
*:The paths too are overgrown, but easily identified by the presence on them of round-leaved plantains .
A plant in the genus Musa , the genus that includes banana, but with lower sugar content than banana.
The fruit of the plant, usually cooked before eating and used like potatoes.
As nouns the difference between yam and plantain
is that yam is any climbing vine of the genus Dioscorea in the Eastern and Western hemispheres, usually cultivated while plantain is a plant of the genus Plantago, with a rosette of sessile leaves about 10 cm long with a narrow part instead of a petiole, and with a spike inflorescence with the flower spacing varying widely among the species. See also psyllium.yam
English
(wikipedia yam)Etymology 1
From (etyl) inhame and (etyl) . The term was coined in .Noun
(en noun)Usage notes
Careful use distinguishes yams (genus Dioscorea'') from sweet potatoes (''Ipomoea batatas ), while casual American use conflates these.Derived terms
* Chinese yam * purple yam * wild yam * yamlessEtymology 2
Anagrams
* ----plantain
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) plainteine et al., (etyl) plaintain, from (etyl) , because of the broad, flat shape of the plantain leaves.Noun
(en noun)- The roots of Plantain and Pellitory of Spain beaten to powder and put into hollow teeth, takes away the pains of them.