I boiled some potatoes for dinner.
Tubers grow well around here.
Derogatory term for a rustic, unsophisticated person. Often used in compounds like 芋侍 (country samurai) or 芋娘 (country girl).
He's a country bumpkin, but he's a good guy.
dud; worthless thing
Slang for something that is a failure, useless, or of poor quality. Often used in phrases like 芋を引く (to draw a blank, to get a dud).
This lottery ticket was a dud.
In autumn, we dig up potatoes in the field.
I completely choked in the important match.
My mother peeled the potatoes and put them in the curry.
I steamed a potato and topped it with butter.
hornworm; hairless caterpillar
taro; dasheen; eddo
Japanese yam; Dioscorea japonica
Chinese yam; nagaimo
sweet-potato vines
taro; cocoyam; dasheen
seed potato
shrimp-shaped taro variety
sweet potato
groundnut; hodo; potatobean
secondary taro corm; taro cormel; taro bud
tertiary taro corm; taro cormlet
paddy-field taro; taro grown in flooded fields
purple yam; water yam · purple-fleshed sweet potato · Conus pauperculus (cone shell)
purple sweet potato
freeze up; get scared; lose one's nerve · camp; stay in one spot
rustic samurai; boorish samurai
Rarely used kanji form; mainly seen in specific plant names or older texts.
Rarely used kanji form; mainly seen in specific plant names or older texts.