yam
Example Sentences
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Mountain yam, bamboo pith and shoots, lotus seeds and gorgon fruit, which Yin says “looks like chickpeas, and tastes like tapioca,” all appear on his menu, too.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 18, 2025
Mercy Diebiru-Ojo's ambitions are straightforward -- increase Nigerian yam and cassava yields by 500 percent, fight hunger and raise her country's position on the agricultural value chain from a mere grower to a processor.
From Barron's • Oct. 15, 2025
The Ogbuagu feasted on traditional dishes such as goat meat pepper soup, nsala soup - made from catfish - pounded yam and palm wine.
From BBC • Jan. 1, 2025
And at Chishuru, whose prix fixe dinner menu is priced at £95, egusi — a seed used in soup, usually served with pounded yam — flavors an ice cream accompanying a meringue sponge.
From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2024
She stood for hours, winding yam, her hands clumsy, unaccustomed to the job she had to do, the thread catching, catching on the rough places on her fingers.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.