Yam is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for YAM in dictionary:

VERB:
• (of a cat) miaow
NOUN:
• a sweet potato
• the edible starchy tuber of a climbing plant, widely distributed in tropical and subtropical countries.
• the plant which yields the yam.
• a sweet potato.
• tropical root vegetable
• 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 D. sativa, but several others are cultivated.
• edible tuber of any of several yams
• any of a number of tropical vines of the genus Dioscorea many having edible tuberous roots
• sweet potato with deep orange flesh that remains moist when baked
• edible tuberous root of various yam plants of the genus Dioscorea grown in the tropics world-wide for food
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a plant having an edible root

Words related to YAM

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Words that contain YAM

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How to use YAM in a sentence

• One of the ladies produced an ace bandage, so we tied up her ankle, which had swollen so much it looked like a baked yam.
• He taught himself to hew small clearings in the woodland, and to plant the banana, the yam, the bread-fruit, and the coco-nut.
• How are slums conceivable or East Ends possible where every man can plant his own yam and cocoa-nut, and reap their fruit four-hundred-fold? How can Mrs.
• The great staple of negro existence, and therefore the great staple of existence to the immense majority of the inhabitants, is the yam.
• And yet some kinds of yam in flower diffuse a fragrance more exquisite, I am persuaded, than comes from any vineyard.
• The yam is of a dirty brown color outside, but white and mealy within.
• At the time of their arrival, he was engaged in superintending the slaves at his corn and yam plantations, but he hastened to them the moment he was informed of the circumstance.
• Gun had sent them two meals, consisting of a little pounded yam, and fish stewed in palm oil, and for this he had the impudence to demand two muskets in payment.
• Boy very kindly presented Lander with a large piece of yam, reserving to himself all the fish they had got at the village, and after making a hearty meal off them, he fell asleep.
• The principal vegetable cultivated by the natives is the yam, with which they are particularly successful.
• There are no cleared portions of ground on the banks of the river, and their cultivation of the yam and other vegetables is at a distance in the woods.
• Here they procured some water and a roasted yam from the natives, who also gave them to understand that Timor was to the southward of them.
• The principal yam, or that known by the names of kutai and ketai, is the most important article of vegetable food, as it lasts nearly throughout the dry season.
• The staple article of food is the yam, which is produced here in great abundance, of large size, and excellent quality.
• Many of them, the buck yam and the cassava, for instance, ought to be used when fresh dug, for every day they are out of the ground they deteriorate.
• For this purpose the bitter cassava, the plantain, and the buck yam are the most promising.
• From the tubers of yams of all sorts, and particularly the buck yam, starch is easily prepared, and of excellent quality.
• As an edible root the buck yam, especially when grown in a light soil, is equal to the potato, if not superior to it.
• The yam was introduced into Sweden, where it succeeded well, and bread, starch, and brandy were made from it, but it prefers a warmer climate.
• The yam frequently grows to the enormous size of forty or fifty pounds weight, but in this large state it is coarse-flavored and fibrous.
• These roots were not, at the time he was there, in full perfection, but their taste was somewhat between the yam and the sweet potato.
• They taste something like a yam or hard dry potato.
• Schomburgk notices the discovery of a variety of Leguminosae, whose tubers grow to an enormous size, fully equal to the largest yam.
• I next asked, by the same means, for something to eat, and they as readily brought me a yam, and some cocoa-nuts.
• They had left a space between them of about thirty or forty yards, in which were laid, to the most advantage, a few small bunches of plantains, a yam, and two or three roots.
• Though he sat down with us, he did but just taste our salt pork, but eat pretty heartily of yam, and drank a glass of wine.
• There hung at this end of the hut a matted bag or basket, in which was a piece of roasted yam, and some sort of leaves, all quite fresh.

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