芋いもづる

noun

sweet-potato vines

Refers to the vines of the sweet potato plant. Also used in the idiom 芋づる式に (like pulling up sweet-potato vines), meaning one after another or in succession.

• 畑はたけの芋いもづるが伸のび放ほう題だいになっている。

  The sweet-potato vines in the field have grown wild.

• 芋いもづる式しきに犯はん人にんが次つぎ々つぎと捕つかまった。

  The criminals were caught one after another, like pulling up sweet-potato vines.