Yam Definition

yăm
yams
noun
yams
The edible, starchy, tuberous root of any of several tropical climbing plants (genus Dioscorea) of the yam family, widely grown in the tropics for food.
Webster's New World
Any of these plants.
Webster's New World
Any of various other similar plants, as the barbasco.
Webster's New World
A moist, orange-colored variety of sweet potato.
Webster's New World

Potato.

Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • yam plant
adjective
Designating a family (Dioscoreaceae, order Liliales), of climbing, chiefly tropical monocotyledonous plants, including the barbasco.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Yam

Noun

Singular:
yam
Plural:
yams

Origin of Yam

  • Portuguese inhame or obsolete Spanish igname, iñame both from Portuguese and English Creole nyam to eat of West African origin Wolof ñam food, to eat or Bambara ñambu manioc

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Portuguese inhame and Spanish ñame, possibly from the Fula nyami (“to eat"). The term was coined in 1657.

    From Wiktionary

Yam Sentence Examples

  • The numbers go up to five, and for living objects the word bird is added, for inanimate yam, for large objects ship.'- There are other terms for bundles of sugarcanes, rows (planted) of yams, &c.; and sometimes things are counted by threes.

  • The two auxiliary verbs are kam, " I have," and yam, "I am."

  • At the yam harvest, major festivals take place.

  • Other characteristic plants of the Coastal Plain are the cranberry, wild rice, wild yam, wax myrtle, wistaria, trumpet flower, passion flower, holly and white alder.

  • Scale of Metres o co 20 30 40 5 Scale of Yards 0 i p zo g o 40 ?o climbing plants with slender herbaceous or shrubby shoots, to which belong the yam and the British black bryony, Tamus communis.

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