Sentence examples for Dioscorea from high-quality English sources.

• It includes only four ingredients: dioscorea spp.

• But it had one natural advantage: various species of inedible yams called Dioscorea.

• Dioscorea is a principal raw material used in the manufacture of birth-control pills.

• Sweet potatoes, which have yellow or orange-colored flesh, are members of the Ipomoea family, while yams are white-fleshed, hairy members of the Dioscorea family, explained Jessica B.

• Yams are members of the genus Dioscorea and are in their own special family, Dioscoreaceae.

• Yam, any of several plant species of the genus Dioscorea (family Dioscoreaceae) grown for their edible tubers.

• Among these is dioscin (25)—from certain yams, genus Dioscorea; the steroid portion of this saponin is diosgenin.

• Extreme lengthening of the internodes often results in twining vines, as in the yam (Dioscorea esculenta; Dioscoreaceae).

Use Dioscorea in a sentence.

• The white Guinea yam, Dioscorea rotundata, was the basis of the new root farming, which enabled the population to grow in the northern savanna from about 5000 bc.

• In the United States, races with orange to red moist and sweet flesh are erroneously known as yams, a term that correctly refers to the tubers or rhizomes of the monocotyledonous genus Dioscorea.

• Elephant’s-foot, (Dioscorea elephantipes), also called hottentot bread, an odd-looking twining plant of the yam family (Dioscoreaceae), characterized by a large, woody, and partially exposed tuber.

• Several species of yams (vines of the genus Dioscorea) are grown for their edible tuberous roots, such as Chinese yam, or cinnamon vine (D. batatas); air potato (D. bulbifera); and yampee, or cush-cush (D. trifida).

• Tropical yams (Dioscorea species), which produce large starchy tubers, are found today on a number of the high islands; they are of greatest importance as a cultivated crop on Pohnpei, where they have high prestige value and provide an important source of food in the winter.

• The primary plant domesticates were yams (Dioscorea species) and taro (Colocasia esculenta), with other domesticates such as plantains (Musa paradisiaca), sago (Metroxylon species), pandanus (Pandanus species), leafy greens (such as Hibiscus manihot), and sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum).

• Many crops are native to Southeast Asia, including black pepper, sugarcane (Saccharum species), banana (Musa species), nutmeg (Myristica fragrans), taro (Araceae species), arrowroot (Maranta species), coconut (Arecaceae species), clove (Syzygium aromaticum), yam (Dioscorea species), and citrus fruits.