chinese yam(n = noun.plant) cinnamon vine, dioscorea batata - hardy Chinese vine naturalized in United States and cultivated as an ornamental climber for its glossy heart-shaped cinnamon-scented leaves and in the tropics for its edible tubers;
is a kind of yam, yam plant

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