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# yam

noun (yam, yams)

«yam» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A yam is a large root vegetable with brown skin and firm white or orange flesh, grown in warm countries and cooked like a potato. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yam/#m1)

### In the lessons

food in the tales; in stories a yam is often cooked in the ashes of a fire, as Uncle Remus does

### Examples

- Here Uncle Remus paused, and drew a two-pound yam out of the ashes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yam/#x1)
- Then the old man blew the ashes from a smoking yam, and proceeded to remove the peeling. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yam/#x2)

### Note

a yam is one thing to count; a weight such as «two-pound» is a measure of how heavy it is, not a count of items, so compare it with other weights, not with numbers of things

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «yam» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yam/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«yam» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/yam.html) on Mova free.