mami

See notes under yam for usage (yam and mami are reversed in the Madang area).

Etymology: Tryon (1995, part 3, p. 255).

See original Mihalic entry ® patate, yam.

Noun forms

1. Food crops: one of the two main yams in Papua New Guinea, normally the ‘lesser yam’, Dioscorea esculenta.

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