yam

Converse of object

• eat: Resigned to his loss, Sasshi declares his intention to go home, eat yams, fart, and hit the sack.
• buy: Rita even managed to buy some yams from them for supper.
• climb: In Ghana, farmers plant up to 54 different varieties of climbing yams ( Dioscorea spp. ) inside the forest to protect the vegetables.
• grow: The climate is suited not only to banana production but also to growing yams, dasheen, mangoes and coconuts.
• sell: Dec 9th WARWAR MARKET a fair number of women selling yams, corn, cassava, and groundnuts.
• plant: Hoe with a tanged disk blade, used in scooping earth into mounds for planting yams ( like potatoes ).

Adjective modifier

• wild: Wild yam has been reported to raise HDL cholesterol in preliminary research.
• candied: Top tip: steer clear of Paul and Linda McCartney's chili non carne and Whitney Houston's candied yams.
• yellow: He has left behind half an acre of yellow yam and a girl with a pretty black mole on her upper lip.
• Chinese: Madeira vine, American ground nut, Chinese yam and Kiwi fruit are all starting to grow well.

Modifies a noun

• root: Take endocrine herbs and uterine tonics to balance the system such as agnus castus berry, squaw vine herb and wild yam root.
• harvest: At the yam harvest, major festivals take place.
• tuber: In the study presented here, yam tubers, which were inoculated with C. gloeosporioides, developed characteristic discoloration of the meristem and cortex.
• house: The first ring consists of the yam houses, and the second ring of the dwellings that face them.

Noun used with modifier

• coco: April 20th Some weeding and some planting coco yams.
• tom: Some Thai dishes have large amounts of ginger in them, eg tom yam kung [ sea food soup ] .