Yam vs. Cassava: Know the Difference

Any of numerous chiefly tropical vines of the genus Dioscorea, many of which have edible tuberous roots.

A shrubby tropical American plant (Manihot esculenta) widely grown for its large, tuberous, starchy roots.

The starchy root of any of these plants, used in the tropics as food.

The root of this plant, eaten as a staple food in the tropics only after leaching and drying to remove cyanide. Cassava starch is also the source of tapioca. In both senses also called manioc, yuca.

See sweet potato.

Manioc (Manihot esculenta), a tropical plant which is the source of tapioca.

Any climbing vine of the genus Dioscorea in the Eastern and Western hemispheres, usually cultivated.

Tapioca, a starchy pulp made with manioc roots.

The edible, starchy, tuberous root of that plant, a tropical staple food.

A shrubby euphorbiaceous plant of the genus Manihot, with fleshy rootstocks yielding an edible starch; - called also manioc.

(US) A sweet potato; a tuber from the species Ipomoea batatas.

A nutritious starch obtained from the rootstocks of the cassava plant, used as food and in making tapioca.

(Scotland) Potato.

A starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics

(NZ) A oca; a tuber from the species Oxalis tuberosa.

Cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca

Taro.

Any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch

An orange-brown colour, like the flesh of the yam. en

A large, esculent, farinaceous tuber of various climbing plants of the genus Dioscorea; also, the plants themselves. Mostly natives of warm climates. The plants have netted-veined, petioled leaves, and pods with three broad wings. The commonest species is Dioscorea sativa, but several others are cultivated.

Any one of several cultural varieties of the sweet potato.

Edible tuber of any of several yams

Any of a number of tropical vines of the genus Dioscorea many having edible tuberous roots

Sweet potato with deep orange flesh that remains moist when baked

Edible tuberous root of various yam plants of the genus Dioscorea grown in the tropics world-wide for food