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# yam

«yam» in Mova's school dictionary: **a large root vegetable with brown skin and firm white or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (yam, yams)

### meaning for a pupil

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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yam/#m1)

### sense 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://md.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://md.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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «yam» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yam/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.