Yam

Yam or YAM may refer to:

Plants/ foods

  • Yam (vegetable), common name for members of Dioscorea
  • Taro, known in Malaysia and Singapore as yam
  • Sweet potato, specifically its orange-fleshed cultivars, often referred to as yams in North America
  • Yam, a salad in Thai cuisine
  • Oxalis tuberosa, referred to as yams in New Zealand and Polynesia
  • Pachyrhizus erosus, called jícama, Mexican yam bean, or Mexican turnip, a tuberous root
  • Konjac, Amorphophallus konjac

Geography

Names

Other uses

See also

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