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yam

noun
🔊/jæm/
🔊/jæm/
 [countable, uncountable]
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  1. the large root of a tropical plant that is cooked as a vegetable薯蓣；山药
    Topics Foodc2
    Word Originlate 16th cent.: from Portuguese inhame or obsolete Spanish iñame, probably of West African origin.