芋 - potato

roasted sweet potato; baked sweet potato

potato (Solanum tuberosum)

tuber; taro; potato; yam

sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)

taros flavoured with miso and grilled on skewers

washing potatoes (in a bucket)

variety of acrid-tasting taro

uncool; bad-looking; unattractive; unsophisticated; provincial; hick

taro variety cultivated in paddy fields

Kichiimo (chain of sweet potato restaurants)

taro (Colocasia esculenta); dasheen; eddo

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