Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

true yam

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.04 in modern English

Syllables: true yam
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Inflected Forms

true yams (plural)

Questions

What does true yam mean?: 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.

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