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noun jamjæm 1The edible starchy tuber of a climbing plant that is widely grown in tropical and subtropical countries. 薯蓣，山药 Example sentencesExamples - Some yams produce many small tubers, no larger than potatoes.
- ‘APPALAMS’, RICE, eggs, potatoes, yams, bottle guards and tamarind are not only edibles.
- Meanwhile, Jamaican cuisine in general has been getting lighter and more healthful, relying less on coconut oil and starchy yams, cassava, and breadfruit.
- To escape the fighting, his family fled from their village on the coast to live in the interior where they survived on wild yams, opossums and edible ferns.
- As Lihirian women were not participants in traditional exchanges, the model they work with is that of the male lineage or clan leader who is the organiser at feasts and takes on the main role of distributor of pigs and yams.
- Although the terms are often used interchangeably, a true yam and a sweet potato not only belong to different families, but they also stem from different continents.
- In Côte d' Ivoire, grains such as millet, maize, and rice and tubers such as yams and cassava make up most meals.
- True yams are a starchy tuber that is a staple crop in many parts of the tropics; they are seldom grown in the United States.
- Oh, and they replaced knowledgable produce staff with people who couldn't tell me the difference between a sweet potato and a yam.
- Trucks selling yams, widely used as a tonic, can be seen along the provincial highway in Nantou County.
- Forest crops, such as plantain, cassava, cocoyam, and tropical yams, predominate in the south.
- In many countries, it is cultivated for its starchy tubers, sometimes called air potatoes or Chinese yams.
- In Kitava, food staples included cultivated tubers (e.g., yams, sweet potatoes, taro); less fish was consumed in Kitava than in Atafu.
- The tuber from the wing-stalked yam is a valuable source of diosgenin.
- The traditional Polynesian foodstuffs of taro (a starchy root), yams, and breadfruit were not well adapted for cultivation on the temperate islands of New Zealand.
- Truth be told, yams are an entirely different vegetable - one grown in Africa and Asia - that has absolutely no relation to sweet potatoes.
- These exotic products include lychees, fresh coriander, orca, pak choi, fresh curry leaves and unusual vegetables such as yams, daikon and bitter gourd.
- I have to contend with Thai-roasted pheasant with sweet yams and shitake mushrooms, balanced precariously on a writhing pepper and black bean sauce.
- The bacon wrapping permeated the meat beautifully, and the rich wine peppercorn sauce, yams, broccoli and potato were fine accompaniments.
- And the vegetables began where the pawpaw ended: yams, potatoes, onions, garlic.
2The cultivated plant that yields the yam. Genus Dioscorea, family Dioscoreaceae: many species Example sentencesExamples - A severe drought killed the first four hundred yams that he had planted from his own stores of a small crop the previous year.
- Men clear the bush and plant the yams with the help of the women and the children.
- Betel nuts, coconuts, rice, yams and the xylophone stretch right across west Africa, but had Indonesian origins.
- Traditional rural staples are sweet potatoes, manioc, yams, corn, rice, pigeon peas, cowpeas, bread, and coffee.
- They also grow corn, yams, millet, sorghum, beans, wheat, buckwheat, fruit, cotton, tobacco, peanuts, sun-flowers, and other crops.
- The staple food is the sweet potato, introduced from Indonesia about 300 years ago; other crops are yams, bananas, taro, sugar cane and greens of various kinds.
- They grow wet rice and dry-field crops (cassava, corn, yams, peanuts, and soybeans).
- Most people support themselves through subsistence farming, growing rice, yams, cassava, bananas, and palm oil nuts.
- Their gardens yielded arrow-root, beans, cassava, cucumbers, melons, maize, and yams; for fruit they cultivated the guava, mammee, papaw and star-apple.
- Average life expectancy is 54; malaria, yellow fever and other diseases are rampant; and much of the population is engaged in subsistence farming of rice, yams and bananas.
- In certain regions corn, rice, groundnuts, vegetables, and yams are cultivated.
- This is where Governor Arthur Phillip planted his big yams, creating Australia's first veggie patch 200 years ago.
- While the country's fertile highlands yield staple foods like yams and cereal grains, the semi-arid lowlands are largely rocky.
- Niueans cultivate both root crops such as talo, yams, and tapioca, and tree crops such as coconut, breadfruit, papaya, and mango, as well as bananas.
- Wives help their husbands plant yams and harvest corn, beans, and cotton.
- After the Week of Peace, Okonkwo and his family prepared their fields and planted their yams.
- Some 2,000 years ago, crops such as bananas, yams, rice, and coconuts reached east Africa from southeast Asia.
- Within the Eurasian-African trading system, some plants and animals had been moved from their native ranges during ancient and classical times (horses, yams, bananas, rice).
- They also grow taro and yams, bananas, ginger, tobacco and colorful cucumbers.
- Other agricultural products include bananas, coconuts, yams, and sugar cane.
- Interviews with villagers who have gardens in the same areas but do not report smaller yams or poor crops yielded another interpretation.
- The fertile soil of the valleys produces a wide variety of fruits and vegetables, including citrus, sugarcane, watermelons, bananas, yams, and beans.
3North American A sweet potato. 〈北美〉番薯，山芋 Example sentencesExamples - Instead, choose slower-burning carbs, such as red potatoes, yams, brown rice, pasta and buckwheat noodles.
- By eating a range of other complex carbs, such as yams, oatmeal, potatoes, pasta and whole-grain breads, you will still be covering your bases.
- Instead of having one portion each of yams, potatoes and stuffing - have an extra slice of turkey.
- Foods like yams and cantaloupe that tend to be high in beta-carotene are other beneficial additions to your diet.
- Foods high in beta-carotene: these include yellow-orange vegetables such as carrots, yams, squash, pumpkin, paprika, cayenne pepper and turnips.
- These days you can just about guarantee that any yams you see in your grocery store are really sweet potatoes.
- The same goes for bags of Trader Joe's Diced Harvest Medley (turnips, yams, and butternut squash) or other chains' cut-and-ready-to-cook vegetables.
- Trade your spuds in for Japanese sweet potatoes, Jersey Sweets (also called white sweet potatoes) or red garnets or jewel yams, which provide more nutritional bang for your buck.
- Eat a variety of rice, brown rice, oatmeal, barley, yams, potatoes and pastas.
- Low-glycemic carbs include oatmeal, buckwheat noodles, buckwheat pancakes, red potatoes, yams, cherries and oranges.
- The remainder should come mostly from complex-carbohydrate foods, such as brown rice, yams, oatmeal, vegetables and high-fiber fruits.
- And while yams are dry and starchy and can make a good chip, they contain little to no beta-carotene or vitamin A, and so are less nutritious.
- They occur naturally in such foods as dark-green leafy vegetables and orange, yellow, and red foods, such as yams and carrots.
- Try foods that contain vitamin A and beta carotene, such as carrots, yams and cantaloupe.
- On this diet, the bulk of my carbs should come from oats, brown rice and yams.
- The vegetables generally sold as yams in supermarkets here are moist, orange-fleshed sweet potatoes, such as the red skinned Garnet and the brown-skinned Jewel.
- Fiber - found in veggies, fruit, beans, oats, and in the skin of yams and potatoes - can dramatically slow the delivery of carbs into the bloodstream.
- The Pilgrims dined on heaps of freshly killed turkey, mashed potatoes, yams, radishes, apple pie, and a multitude of other treats on sturdy, rugged tables built especially for the occasion.
- Instead, it had roasted beets, zucchini, onions, yams and red peppers, with mustard and romano cheese, on a high-quality baguette.
- Broccoli spears, zucchini, asparagus, white onion, red peppers and yams hiding beneath paperweight layers of golden batter are like presents waiting to be unwrapped, bite by delicious bite.
- Although the focus is on protein, don't neglect carbs, particularly complex sources such as potatoes, yams, rice and vegetables.
- Excellent carb sources include fruit, vegetables and complex, slow-burning foods such as oatmeal, yams, potatoes and brown rice.
- For the lobster noodles: In a food processor combine the lobster meat, egg white, potato starch, and yam.
- Rural villages on high islands are located within a short distance of both the sea and extensive family gardens devoted to taro, yam, sweet potato, or cassava cultivation.
OriginLate 16th century: from Portuguese inhame or obsolete Spanish iñame, probably of West African origin. Rhymesam, Amsterdam, Assam, Bram, cam, cham, cheongsam, clam, cram, dam, damn, drachm, dram, exam, femme, flam, gam, glam, gram, ham, jam, jamb, lam, lamb, mam, mesdames, Omar Khayyám, Pam, pram, pro-am, ram, Sam, scam, scram, sham, Siam, slam, Spam, swam, tam, tram, Vietnam, wham verb jamjæm [no object]Irish, Scottish (of a cat) miaow. a cat slips up the driveway, yamming and trying to talk Example sentencesExamples - His wee cat jumped on his bed and batted him on the head and yammed till he got up.
- My cat will cry for hours, yamming and yowling.
- In the most still minute of the night, you wake and wonder: was that a cat yamming?
- The kitten looked up at her and yammed.
- Two cats took up station outside my window and the pair of them went on yamming the whole night.
nounjæmyam 1The edible starchy tuber of a climbing plant that is widely grown in tropical and subtropical countries. 薯蓣，山药 Example sentencesExamples - The traditional Polynesian foodstuffs of taro (a starchy root), yams, and breadfruit were not well adapted for cultivation on the temperate islands of New Zealand.
- True yams are a starchy tuber that is a staple crop in many parts of the tropics; they are seldom grown in the United States.
- Although the terms are often used interchangeably, a true yam and a sweet potato not only belong to different families, but they also stem from different continents.
- These exotic products include lychees, fresh coriander, orca, pak choi, fresh curry leaves and unusual vegetables such as yams, daikon and bitter gourd.
- To escape the fighting, his family fled from their village on the coast to live in the interior where they survived on wild yams, opossums and edible ferns.
- In Côte d' Ivoire, grains such as millet, maize, and rice and tubers such as yams and cassava make up most meals.
- Meanwhile, Jamaican cuisine in general has been getting lighter and more healthful, relying less on coconut oil and starchy yams, cassava, and breadfruit.
- Trucks selling yams, widely used as a tonic, can be seen along the provincial highway in Nantou County.
- Oh, and they replaced knowledgable produce staff with people who couldn't tell me the difference between a sweet potato and a yam.
- The tuber from the wing-stalked yam is a valuable source of diosgenin.
- In many countries, it is cultivated for its starchy tubers, sometimes called air potatoes or Chinese yams.
- I have to contend with Thai-roasted pheasant with sweet yams and shitake mushrooms, balanced precariously on a writhing pepper and black bean sauce.
- Some yams produce many small tubers, no larger than potatoes.
- ‘APPALAMS’, RICE, eggs, potatoes, yams, bottle guards and tamarind are not only edibles.
- As Lihirian women were not participants in traditional exchanges, the model they work with is that of the male lineage or clan leader who is the organiser at feasts and takes on the main role of distributor of pigs and yams.
- In Kitava, food staples included cultivated tubers (e.g., yams, sweet potatoes, taro); less fish was consumed in Kitava than in Atafu.
- Truth be told, yams are an entirely different vegetable - one grown in Africa and Asia - that has absolutely no relation to sweet potatoes.
- And the vegetables began where the pawpaw ended: yams, potatoes, onions, garlic.
- The bacon wrapping permeated the meat beautifully, and the rich wine peppercorn sauce, yams, broccoli and potato were fine accompaniments.
- Forest crops, such as plantain, cassava, cocoyam, and tropical yams, predominate in the south.
2The cultivated plant that yields the yam. Genus Dioscorea, family Dioscoreaceae: many species Example sentencesExamples - This is where Governor Arthur Phillip planted his big yams, creating Australia's first veggie patch 200 years ago.
- They also grow corn, yams, millet, sorghum, beans, wheat, buckwheat, fruit, cotton, tobacco, peanuts, sun-flowers, and other crops.
- Their gardens yielded arrow-root, beans, cassava, cucumbers, melons, maize, and yams; for fruit they cultivated the guava, mammee, papaw and star-apple.
- The fertile soil of the valleys produces a wide variety of fruits and vegetables, including citrus, sugarcane, watermelons, bananas, yams, and beans.
- After the Week of Peace, Okonkwo and his family prepared their fields and planted their yams.
- Betel nuts, coconuts, rice, yams and the xylophone stretch right across west Africa, but had Indonesian origins.
- They also grow taro and yams, bananas, ginger, tobacco and colorful cucumbers.
- In certain regions corn, rice, groundnuts, vegetables, and yams are cultivated.
- While the country's fertile highlands yield staple foods like yams and cereal grains, the semi-arid lowlands are largely rocky.
- Within the Eurasian-African trading system, some plants and animals had been moved from their native ranges during ancient and classical times (horses, yams, bananas, rice).
- Traditional rural staples are sweet potatoes, manioc, yams, corn, rice, pigeon peas, cowpeas, bread, and coffee.
- Other agricultural products include bananas, coconuts, yams, and sugar cane.
- Men clear the bush and plant the yams with the help of the women and the children.
- Average life expectancy is 54; malaria, yellow fever and other diseases are rampant; and much of the population is engaged in subsistence farming of rice, yams and bananas.
- They grow wet rice and dry-field crops (cassava, corn, yams, peanuts, and soybeans).
- The staple food is the sweet potato, introduced from Indonesia about 300 years ago; other crops are yams, bananas, taro, sugar cane and greens of various kinds.
- Interviews with villagers who have gardens in the same areas but do not report smaller yams or poor crops yielded another interpretation.
- A severe drought killed the first four hundred yams that he had planted from his own stores of a small crop the previous year.
- Most people support themselves through subsistence farming, growing rice, yams, cassava, bananas, and palm oil nuts.
- Niueans cultivate both root crops such as talo, yams, and tapioca, and tree crops such as coconut, breadfruit, papaya, and mango, as well as bananas.
- Some 2,000 years ago, crops such as bananas, yams, rice, and coconuts reached east Africa from southeast Asia.
- Wives help their husbands plant yams and harvest corn, beans, and cotton.
3North American A sweet potato. 〈北美〉番薯，山芋 Example sentencesExamples - Foods like yams and cantaloupe that tend to be high in beta-carotene are other beneficial additions to your diet.
- Instead, it had roasted beets, zucchini, onions, yams and red peppers, with mustard and romano cheese, on a high-quality baguette.
- Fiber - found in veggies, fruit, beans, oats, and in the skin of yams and potatoes - can dramatically slow the delivery of carbs into the bloodstream.
- Eat a variety of rice, brown rice, oatmeal, barley, yams, potatoes and pastas.
- Instead, choose slower-burning carbs, such as red potatoes, yams, brown rice, pasta and buckwheat noodles.
- Rural villages on high islands are located within a short distance of both the sea and extensive family gardens devoted to taro, yam, sweet potato, or cassava cultivation.
- Broccoli spears, zucchini, asparagus, white onion, red peppers and yams hiding beneath paperweight layers of golden batter are like presents waiting to be unwrapped, bite by delicious bite.
- Instead of having one portion each of yams, potatoes and stuffing - have an extra slice of turkey.
- They occur naturally in such foods as dark-green leafy vegetables and orange, yellow, and red foods, such as yams and carrots.
- Although the focus is on protein, don't neglect carbs, particularly complex sources such as potatoes, yams, rice and vegetables.
- These days you can just about guarantee that any yams you see in your grocery store are really sweet potatoes.
- Excellent carb sources include fruit, vegetables and complex, slow-burning foods such as oatmeal, yams, potatoes and brown rice.
- Low-glycemic carbs include oatmeal, buckwheat noodles, buckwheat pancakes, red potatoes, yams, cherries and oranges.
- The Pilgrims dined on heaps of freshly killed turkey, mashed potatoes, yams, radishes, apple pie, and a multitude of other treats on sturdy, rugged tables built especially for the occasion.
- Foods high in beta-carotene: these include yellow-orange vegetables such as carrots, yams, squash, pumpkin, paprika, cayenne pepper and turnips.
- The remainder should come mostly from complex-carbohydrate foods, such as brown rice, yams, oatmeal, vegetables and high-fiber fruits.
- And while yams are dry and starchy and can make a good chip, they contain little to no beta-carotene or vitamin A, and so are less nutritious.
- By eating a range of other complex carbs, such as yams, oatmeal, potatoes, pasta and whole-grain breads, you will still be covering your bases.
- On this diet, the bulk of my carbs should come from oats, brown rice and yams.
- Trade your spuds in for Japanese sweet potatoes, Jersey Sweets (also called white sweet potatoes) or red garnets or jewel yams, which provide more nutritional bang for your buck.
- The vegetables generally sold as yams in supermarkets here are moist, orange-fleshed sweet potatoes, such as the red skinned Garnet and the brown-skinned Jewel.
- The same goes for bags of Trader Joe's Diced Harvest Medley (turnips, yams, and butternut squash) or other chains' cut-and-ready-to-cook vegetables.
- For the lobster noodles: In a food processor combine the lobster meat, egg white, potato starch, and yam.
- Try foods that contain vitamin A and beta carotene, such as carrots, yams and cantaloupe.
OriginLate 16th century: from Portuguese inhame or obsolete Spanish iñame, probably of West African origin. verbyamjæm [no object]Irish, Scottish (of a cat) meow. a cat slips up the driveway, yamming and trying to talk Example sentencesExamples - My cat will cry for hours, yamming and yowling.
- His wee cat jumped on his bed and batted him on the head and yammed till he got up.
- The kitten looked up at her and yammed.
- In the most still minute of the night, you wake and wonder: was that a cat yamming?
- Two cats took up station outside my window and the pair of them went on yamming the whole night.
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