Usually means: Starchy tubers, often sweet, nutritious.
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  1. yams: Merriam-Webster
  2. yams: Collins English Dictionary
  3. yams: Vocabulary.com
  4. Yam's, Yams, yams: Wordnik
  5. yams: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Yams, yams: Wiktionary
  7. yams: Dictionary.com
  8. yams: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Yams: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. yams: FreeDictionary.org
  11. Yams: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (yam)

noun:  Any climbing vine of the genus Dioscorea in the Eastern and Western hemispheres, usually cultivated.
noun:  The edible, starchy, tuberous root of that plant, a tropical staple food.
noun:  (US) A sweet potato; a tuber from the species Ipomoea batatas.
noun:  (Scotland) A potato.
noun:  (New Zealand) An oca; a tuber from the species Oxalis tuberosa.
noun:  (Malaysia, Singapore) Taro.
noun:  An orange-brown colour, like the flesh of the yam.
noun:  (regional, Cumberland) Home.
verb:  (UK, slang) To eat.
verb:  (especially basketball) To dunk on; to beat humiliatingly.
noun:  A surname.
verb:  Pronunciation spelling of am.
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