薯莨
shǔ​liáng

dye yam

  • created sense approved 薯莨 · shǔ​liáng · dye yam — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    薯莨

    shǔ​liáng

    dye yam

    A perennial climbing vine (Dioscorea cirrhosa) with a purple-black tuberous root used to produce a reddish-brown dye for cotton and linen fabrics

    薯 (literal) → 薯 · shǔ · potato 莨 (literal) → 莨 · liáng · dyer's yam

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense