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/jæm/ · noun
Any climbing vine of the genus Dioscorea in the Eastern and Western hemispheres, usually cultivated..
Inwardly Okonkwo knew that the boys were still too young to understand fully the difficult art of preparing seed-yams. But he thought that one could not begin too early. Yam stood for manliness, and he who could feed his family on yams from one harvest to another was a very great man indeed.
“Stay, jailer, stay, and hear my woe,” repeating again and again, very softly, the line at the end of each stanza, “I am not mad, I am not mad.” Except she sang it: “I yam not mad, I yam not mad.”
“If I was that snake I’d just open my jaw and yam that fool up in one bite!”
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Yam means Any climbing vine of the genus Dioscorea in the Eastern and Western hemispheres, usually cultivated..
Common synonyms include yam plant.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Inwardly Okonkwo knew that the boys were still too young to understand fully the difficult art of preparing seed-yams. But he thought that one could not begin too early. Yam stood for manliness, and he who could feed his family on yams from one harvest to another was a very great man indeed.
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