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Any climbing vine of the genus Dioscorea in the Eastern and Western hemispheres, usually cultivated.
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The edible, starchy, tuberous root of that plant, a tropical staple food.
- Inwardly Okonkwo knew that the boys were still too young to understand fully the difficult art of preparing seed-yams. But he thought that one could not begin too early. Yam stood for manliness, and he who could feed his family on yams from
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A sweet potato; a tuber from the species Ipomoea batatas.US
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A potato.Scotland
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An oca; a tuber from the species Oxalis tuberosa.New-Zealand
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Taro.MalaysiaSingapore
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An orange-brown colour, like the flesh of the yam.
yam
jæm8 senses · 81 ms
Level C1
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Home.regional
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Pronunciation spelling of am.alt-ofpronunciation-spelling
- “Stay, jailer, stay, and hear my woe,” repeating again and again, very softly, the line at the end of each stanza, “I am not mad, I am not mad.” Except she sang it: “I yam not mad, I yam not mad.”
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To eat.UKslang
- “If I was that snake I’d just open my jaw and yam that fool up in one bite!”
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To dunk on; to beat humiliatingly.especially
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:yam.