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yam

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Noun

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun yam has 4 senses

yam(n = noun.plant) - edible tuber of any of several yams;

is a part of

yam

yam plant

is a kind of tuber

yam(n = noun.plant) yam plant - any of a number of tropical vines of the genus Dioscorea many having edible tuberous roots;

is a member of dioscorea, genus dioscorea

has parts: yam

has particulars: dioscorea alata, water yam, white yam, chinese yam, cinnamon vine, dioscorea batata, air potato, dioscorea bulbifera, cush-cush, dioscorea trifida

is a kind of vine

yam(n = noun.food) - sweet potato with deep orange flesh that remains moist when baked;

is a kind of

sweet potato

yam(n = noun.food) - edible tuberous root of various yam plants of the genus Dioscorea grown in the tropics world-wide for food;

is a kind of

root vegetable

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CIDE DICTIONARY

yam, n. [Pg. inhame, probably from some native name.].

A large, esculent, farinaceous tuber of various climbing plants of the genus Dioscorea; also, the plants themselves. Mostly natives of warm climates. The plants have netted-veined, petioled leaves, and pods with three broad wings. The commonest species is Dioscorea sativa, but several others are cultivated. [1913 Webster]
Any one of several cultural varieties of the sweet potato. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

Chinese yam, a plant (Dioscorea Batatas) with a long and slender tuber, hardier than most of the other species. -- Wild yam. (a) A common plant (Dioscorea villosa) of the Eastern United States, having a hard and knotty rootstock. (b) An orchidaceous plant (Gastrodia sesamoides) of Australia and Tasmania.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

yam, n.
1 a any tropical or subtropical climbing plant of the genus Dioscorea. b the edible starchy tuber of this.
2 US a sweet potato.

Etymology

Port. inhame or Sp. i{ntilde}ame, of unkn. orig.

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ROGET THESAURUS

yam

Vegetable

N vegetable, vegetable kingdom, flora, verdure, plant, tree, shrub, bush, creeper, herb, herbage, grass, annual, perennial, biennial, triennial, exotic, timber, forest, wood, woodlands, timberland, hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney, underwood, brushwood, scrub, boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte, arboretum, bush, jungle, prairie, heath, heather, fern, bracken, furze, gorse, whin, grass, turf, pasture, pasturage, turbary, sedge, rush, weed, fungus, mushroom, toadstool, lichen, moss, conferva, mold, growth, alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan, blow, blowth, floret, petiole, pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia, foliage, branch, bough, ramage, stem, tigella, spray, leaf, flower, blossom, bine, flowering plant, timber tree, fruit tree, pulse, legume, vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous, herbaceous, herbal, botanic, sylvan, silvan, arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical, woody, grassy, verdant, verdurous, floral, mossy, lignous, ligneous, wooden, leguminous, vosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy, endogenous, exogenous, green-robed senators of mighty woods, this is the forest primeval.

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