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• JJ served a bass crudo with yam, Birdeye chile, and cumin puff rice.2014 June 26, Amanda Kludt, “Eater Young Guns Class of 2014 Feted in Los Angeles”, in Eater National. From the entry birdeye
• Hard food, such as yams, coco and dasheen, came from Country, and sometimes meat too.2012, Claudette Beckford-Brady, Sweet Home, Jamaica, page 382. From the entry hard food
• I was lucky with this one, as my roommate's girlfriend left me the aforementioned yams.2011 November 23, David Freid, “Surviving the Thanksgiving Apocalypse”, in The Huffington Post. From the entry yamless
• "Ayubowan, I am looking for a yam for my Suduhamy." I said.1963, Punyakante Wijenaike, The third woman and other stories - Part 1963, page 48. From the entry ayubowan
• Occasionally they were given a change of diet with 'cheeky' yams.1962, Nancy Polishuk, Four Against the River, Dutton, →OCLC, page 85. From the entry cheeky yam
• She took her spoon and stirred the melted butter into the yellow meat of the yam.1954, Cothburn O'Neal, The Dark Lady, page 12. From the entry meat
• The defining features of this yam cake are its garnishing and sauce, which are always part of the dish.2014, Ng Lip Kah, edited by Audrey Yow, Dim Sum: A Step-by-step Cookbook (Cooking Classics), Singapore: Marshall Cavendish, →ISBN, page 75. From the entry yam cake
• This recipe can be adapted to make yam cake.2012, Christopher Tan, Amy Van, Chinese Heritage Cooking (Singapore Heritage Cookbooks), Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Cuisine, →ISBN…. From the entry yam cake
• Nigerian PE 'dè nyám dḝm ' 'the yams'.2000, John Holm, An Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles, page 215. From the entry pluralizer
• Ezinma and her mother sat on a mat on the floor after their supper of yam foo-foo and bitter-leaf soup.1958 June 17, Chinua Achebe, chapter 11, in Things Fall Apart, London: Heinemann, →OCLC. From the entry foo-foo
• Colonist Isaac Batey, when commenting on the disappearance of the yam daisy, remembers the women harvesting and washing the tubers in vast quantities.2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 21. From the entry yam daisy
• All can find a stall selling something familiar – and maybe something new to try, whether it’s yams or plantain, dhania or jellied eels.2015 July 10, “Saving our city centres, one local market at a time”, in The Guardian. From the entry dhania
• The amala, or fermented yam, is an acquired taste, arriving in a grayish steamed mound, wrapped in plastic; it's neither sweet nor sour.2002 September 20, Steve Dolinsky, “All Over the Map”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry amala
• Ron offers a choice of ribs, ham, sausage links or beef — all smoked — along with “bayou” beans, cole slaw, corn bread and yams.1969 December 12, Harry Craft, “Dining Out and Inns: Provincial American Cuisine Enlivens Miracle Mile Menu”, in Daily…. From the entry cole slaw
• Tropical tubers alone are staggering in their diversity, including white and yellow true yams, sweet potatoes, yucca, yautia, African yams, malanga coco, fresh batata, and several kinds of potatoes.2010, “Greater Boston”, in Patricia Harris, David Lyon, Food Lovers’ Guide to Massachusetts: Best Local Specialties, Markets, Recipes…. From the entry malanga coco
• They were both too hungry to wait for the yams and rutabagas to bake, so tonight they would have the frozen White Castle minicheeseburgers that Mr.2007, James Wilcox, Hunk City. From the entry rutabaga
• Chalba proved to be a great ‘smeller out’ of yams, an expert in the finding of any edible root or bulb or fruit or vegetable, or of wildfowl eggs.1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 70. From the entry smeller out
• Africans generally serve highly seasoned stews with a starch - corn, millet, yams, cassava or rice - which they mash and whip to a paste, called fufu in West Africa.[1987 July 29, Steven Barboza, “Culinary Delights of Africa Reflect a Continent's Diversity”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry fufu
• We passed many canoes, the paddlers balancing desperately against our wash, fearful lest their keel-less log craft should overbalance, and tip yams, sago, wife and babies into the crocodiley stream.1943, Frank Clune, chapter XV, in Prowling through Papua, Sydney, N.S.W.; London: Angus and Robertson Ltd, page 212. From the entry crocodiley

Meaning of yam

1. noun Any climbing vine of the genus Dioscorea in the Eastern and Western hemispheres, usually cultivated.
2. noun The edible, starchy, tuberous root of that plant, a tropical staple food.
3. noun A sweet potato; a tuber from the species Ipomoea batatas.

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How do you use yam in a sentence?

Yam is used as a noun and verb. For example: “For quotations using this term, see Citations:yam.”

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What does yam mean?

Yam means any climbing vine of the genus Dioscorea in the Eastern and Western hemispheres, usually cultivated.