芋洗い

いもあらい

washing potatoes (in a bucket)

足を洗う

あしをあらう

to quit (a shady business), to wash one's hands of, to cut one's ties with, to turn over a new leaf, to go straight

洗う

あらう

to wash

血で血を洗う

ちでちをあらう

to engage in a bloody feud, to have a family quarrel, to quarrel with one's own flesh and blood, to wash blood for blood

芋

いも

tuber, taro, potato

ようよう

hullo there!, way to go!, bravo!

うようよ

in swarms, crawling with

種芋

たねいも

seed potato

京芋

きょういも キョウイモ

shrimp-shaped taro variety

海芋

かいう カイウ うみいも

calla (Zantedcschia aethiopica)

芋版

いもばん

stamp made with a potato

芋侍

いもざむらい いもさむらい

rustic (boorish) samurai

芋茎

ずいき

taro stem

芋虫

いもむし イモムシ

hornworm (caterpillar of a hawk moth), (hairless) caterpillar

里芋

さといも サトイモ

taro (Colocasia esculenta), dasheen, eddo

長芋

ながいも ナガイモ

Chinese yam (Dioscorea batatas)

孫芋

まごいも

tertiary taro corm, taro cormlet

ジャガタラ芋

ジャガタラいも ジャガタライモ

potato (Solanum tuberosum)

芋頭

いもがしら

tubercle