Usually means: Starchy tuber, often sweet, nutritious.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. yam: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. yam: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. yam: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. yam: Collins English Dictionary
  5. yam: Vocabulary.com
  6. Yam, yam: Wordnik
  7. yam: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Yam, yam: Wiktionary
  9. yam: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. yam: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. yam: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. yam: Dictionary.com
  13. yam: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. yam: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. YAM (Yet Another Mailer), Yam (disambiguation), Yam (god), Yam (route), Yam (vegetable), Yam: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Yam: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. yam: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. yam: Rhymezone
  19. Yam: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. yam: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. YAM, yam: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. yam: Free Dictionary
  23. yam: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  24. yam: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. yam: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. YAM: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Epicurus.com Food Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Congo Cookbook (No longer online)
  4. yam, yam: Cook's Thesaurus

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  2. Yam (disambiguation), Yam (god), yam: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Yam (disambiguation), yam: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. YAM: Acronym Finder
  3. YAM: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. yam: Anthropological Terms

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Yam (offensive), Yam (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. yam, yam: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. yam: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  4. Yam: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  5. YAM, YAM, y'am: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BBC Food Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Culinary Cafe (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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