Phrase Hound found 17 phrases and 7 compound words that contain yams. The most common are listed below. Open yams in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 17
- candied yamsA holiday side dish of sweet potatoes baked in a spiced, buttery syrup.
- cheeky yamsplural of cheeky yam: A yam species (Dioscorea bulbifera), native to Africa, southern Asia, and northern Australia, cultivated and naturalized widely.
- garnet yamsplural of garnet yam: A variety of moist-fleshed sweet potato.
- greater yamsplural of greater yam: Synonym of name (yam)
- jewel yamsplural of jewel yam: A variety of moist-fleshed sweet potato.
- purple yamsplural of purple yam: A yam used in a variety of desserts, Dioscorea alata.
- tom yamsplural of tom yam: A Thai soup flavoured with fish sauce, lemongrass, lime juice, and chillies.
- tropical yamsplural of tropical yam: Synonym of name (yam)
- true yamsplural of true yam: Any plant in the genus Dioscorea, or its tubers, so called to distinguish them from the sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) varieties known as yams in the US, and from the New Zealand yam, Oxalis tuberosa.
- water yamsplural of water yam: A plant (Aponogeton madagascariensis or Aponogeton fenestralis; formerly Ouvirandra fenestralis) whose leaves have little tissue between the veins.
- wild yamsplural of wild yam: Dioscorea dregeana
- yam yamsplural of yam yam: A person who speaks the Black Country dialect.
- Okinawan yamsplural of Okinawan yam: A variety of sweet potato grown in Okinawa that has purple flesh.
- elephant foot yamsplural of elephant foot yam: A plant of the species Amorphophallus paeoniifolius, similar to the titan arum, cultivated for food.
- Japanese mountain yamsplural of Japanese mountain yam: A Japanese species of yam, Dioscorea japonica
- New Zealand yamsplural of New Zealand yam: The oca, Oxalis tuberosa, a root vegetable introduced from South America.
- afoo yamsplural of afoo yam: A kind of yam prized in Jamaica.
Compound words 7
- cocoyamsplural of cocoyam: New cocoyam: Xanthosoma, particularly Xanthosoma sagittifolium, or the edible root of that plant; malanga.
- Kangayamsplural of Kangayam: A historical town and municipality in Tiruppur district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
- palayamsplural of palayam: A district in India held in feudal tenure by a poligar.
- pranayamsplural of pranayam: Breathing techniques; breath control, often synchronized with movements between asanas in yoga.
- wateryamsplural of wateryam: A plant (Aponogeton madagascariensis or Aponogeton fenestralis; formerly Ouvirandra fenestralis) whose leaves have little tissue between the veins.
- WillyamsA surname.
- yamsticksplural of yamstick: A rod-shaped implement used by the aboriginal people of Australia to dig yam and as a combat weapon.