viipana wild edible yam

• • wild edible yam
  • • plants

  Scientific Name

  dioscorea species

  • • Example 3559:
      

      Beve hooto, eove repaa vapepeana maa komano kasuana potee bona kobisi na aba.

      When it is mature, it grows tubers inside the ground that look like a person's finger. (i.e. the yam called viipana)

      Source: Joy 19W 171

    • Example 9349:
      

      A viipana a voi vai a puara. Na purapura pinopino batana komana maa rasuu. A voi bona a koma kakaavoo kurusu. A kapa nae na maramarabi. A voi bona a vakunakuna vaberobero. A viipana a aniani a nini mataa kurusu.

      The viipana is a wild yam. It grows everywhere without care in the forests. This yam has a very white inside. Its skin is brownish. This yam has many tubers. The edible viipana yam has a very good taste.

      Source: Aro Sha Joy 01W 152-158

    • Example 9350:
      

      Arovi: Ahiki vahaa ta tabaan, a viipana koa to an bata nom nam, o viipana kou o voi vaa tea rasuu.

      There was not any food, it was just wild yam what we ate, wild yams are the yams of the jungle.

      Source: Eno Aro 01E 027

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• See also:
  • puara (of animals and plants) wild
  • vakunakuna having spines or tubers
  • vapepeana¹ grow many branches or tubers
  • hooto mature; ripe; ready to be harvested (only of sweet potatoes, manioc, taro and yams)