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yam
/jæm/
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What does yam mean?
noun
- Any climbing vine of the genus Dioscorea in the Eastern and Western hemispheres, usually cultivated.
- The edible, starchy, tuberous root of that plant, a tropical staple food.
- A sweet potato; a tuber from the species Ipomoea batatas.
More meanings (9)
noun
- A potato.
- An oca; a tuber from the species Oxalis tuberosa.
- Taro.
- An orange-brown colour, like the flesh of the yam.
- Home.
verb
- Pronunciation spelling of am.
- (slang) To eat.
- To dunk on; to beat humiliatingly.
proper noun
- A surname.
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IPA pronunciation
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Next came a huge figure to him, having in its hand a gunnai or yam stick.
The English name was borrowed from the Spanish "patata", which was itself borrowed from a native word for the "yam" in the dialect of Hayti.
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One variety is to hang up at the edge of a PADI field a yam or other root covered with projecting spikes of bamboo cane.
This core was served with hemp saturated in a preservative solution, and on the hemp as a padding were spirally wound eighteen single wires of soft steel, each covered with fine strands of Manilla yam steeped in the preservative.