yam

About 0.86 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. symbol ISO 639-3 language code for Yamba.
2. noun Any climbing vine of the genus Dioscorea in the Eastern and Western hemispheres, usually cultivated.
3. noun The edible, starchy, tuberous root of that plant, a tropical staple food.
4. noun A sweet potato; a tuber from the species Ipomoea batatas.
5. noun A potato.
6. noun An oca; a tuber from the species Oxalis tuberosa.
7. noun Taro.
8. noun An orange-brown colour, like the flesh of the yam. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

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Similar words

yam plant ren yum yin guanyin term chief financial jen lim

Often followed by

and is festival or in was to tubers harvest

Word family

yams