yam
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- noun
- /jæm/
:
ñame
- The recipe calls for velvety yams, which you can mash or bake.
- ceremonial yams
- yam harvest
- yam festivals
Hey kid, can you ask your mother to pass the yams?
- Hey kid, can you ask your mother to pass the yams?
- They love tubers like yams, like picama, like Taro root, like yuca or yuca.
- So black cohosh, wild yam and Dong Kuai.
Examples
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Y'all got to get some collard greens and some yams!
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You want some chicken breasts, some collards, some yams.
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Here, try some of those yams.
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Stop making mom cook yams and potatoes for you all the time.
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Greg, would you like some yams?
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I can't eat any more yams.
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Look, yams, papaya, taro root.
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After hanging up, Rosalie put the yams into a plastic bag and stored them in the refrigerator.
Fiction book (2002) -
"There's a roasted turkey breast here, with some candied yams and cranberry sauce.
Fiction book (2000) -
For dinner, we had roasted yams seasoned with garlic and herbs.
Synonyms
A yam from Southeast Asia with large starchy roots often purple or white inside
A tropical yam plant grown for its large edible tubers
A large root vegetable grown on Pacific islands with soft white inside
A large starchy root with white flesh used for cooking
A climbing plant with shiny heart-shaped leaves and edible roots
A tropical American yam plant with small yellow roots that people eat
A small yellow yam that farmers grow in tropical America for food
Idioms
Compounds
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A plant with a thick underground root used in traditional medicine for joint pain or liver problems
- Specialized
A group of flowering plants that includes yams and other plants with starchy underground tubers
How Starchy
Surface Forms
Etymology
Yam comes from West Africa and passed into English through Portuguese; in some West African languages the word sounded like nyami and meant an 'edible root'. So a yam today still means that starchy root grown for food in warm places.