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iniama

iniama is the obsolete form of yam.

Meaning of yam

Noun

yam (plural yams)

  1. Any climbing vine of the genus Dioscorea in the Eastern and Western hemispheres, usually cultivated.
  2. 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 one harvest to another was a very great man indeed.1958 June 17, Chinua Achebe, chapter 4, in Things Fall Apart, New York, N.Y.: Astor-Honor, published 1959, →OCLC, part 1, page 34
  3. (US) A sweet potato; a tuber from the species Ipomoea batatas.
  4. (Scotland) A potato.
  5. (New Zealand) An oca; a tuber from the species Oxalis tuberosa.
  6. (Malaysia, Singapore) Taro.

See all 11 meanings of yam

Forms of iniama

pluraliniamas

Questions about iniama

What is iniama the obsolete form of?
Iniama is the obsolete form of yam.

Words near iniama in the dictionary

  1. inhæsion
  2. inia
  3. iniac
  4. iniad
  5. inial
  6. iniama
  7. iniamas
  8. inias
  9. Inibaloi
  10. iniencephalic
  11. iniencephalus

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Adapted from Wiktionary: iniama (page history and authors); yam (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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