yam

Betekenis (Engels)

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.
3. A sweet potato; a tuber from the species Ipomoea batatas.
4. A potato.
5. A oca; a tuber from the species Oxalis tuberosa.
6. Taro.
7. An orange-brown colour, like the flesh of the yam.

zoete aardappel

bataat

aardaapel

broodvrucht

jamswortel

yamplant

yam plant

cinnamon vine

sweet potato vine

tuberous plant

cultivated yam

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long yam

root crop

Frequentie

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/jæm/

From Portuguese inhame and Spanish ñame, likely from Wolof ñàmbi (“cassava”) or a related word. The term was spelled yam as early as 1657.

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