yam
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1. yam - Noun
2. yam - Verb
3. Yam - Proper noun
Meaning
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.
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A popular hiking trail known as the yam leyam, or sea-to-sea, starts hikers at the Mediterranean.
The destruction of Orji’s farms began on January 21 when bulldozer of the accused stormed his farms, starting with the expanse yam farm, then cassava, uprooting and crushing the tubers among rubble.
In the south, hunting and gathering gave way to subsistence farming around the same time, relying more on the indigenous yam and oil palm than on the cereals important in the North.
Many of the former slaves settled in peasant or small farm communities in the interior of the island, the "yam belt," where they engaged in subsistence and some cash crop farming.
The people of Kwara and Kogi states are known for the production of coffee, palm oil, cashew, groundnut, yam, cassava, maize, guinea corn, millet and beans.
It may look like Coachella, but Thailand’s Wonderfruit aims to be a less vacuous affair—and food is central here, with stalls selling everything from tom yam noodles to sashimi.