yam

«yam» in Mova's school dictionary: a large root vegetable with brown skin and firm white or… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (yam, yams)

meaning for a pupil

A yam is a large root vegetable with brown skin and firm white or orange flesh, grown in warm countries and cooked like a potato. tree →

sense in the lessons

food in the tales; in stories a yam is often cooked in the ashes of a fire, as Uncle Remus does

examples

• Here Uncle Remus paused, and drew a two-pound yam out of the ashes. tree →
• Then the old man blew the ashes from a smoking yam, and proceeded to remove the peeling. tree →

note

a yam is one thing to count; a weight such as «two-pound» is a measure of how heavy it is, not a count of items, so compare it with other weights, not with numbers of things

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «yam» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.