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yam
Overview of noun yam
The noun yam has 4 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. yam -- (edible tuber of any of several yams)
2. yam, yam plant -- (any of a number of tropical vines of the genus Dioscorea many having edible tuberous roots)
3. yam -- (sweet potato with deep orange flesh that remains moist when baked)
4. yam -- (edible tuberous root of various yam plants of the genus Dioscorea grown in the tropics world-wide for food)
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun yam
4 senses of yam
Sense 1
yam
=> tuber
=> stalk, stem
=> plant organ
=> plant part, plant structure
=> natural object
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 2
yam, yam plant
=> vine
=> vascular plant, tracheophyte
=> plant, flora, plant life
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 3
yam
=> sweet potato
=> root vegetable
=> vegetable, veggie
=> produce, green goods, green groceries, garden truck
=> food, solid food
=> solid
=> substance, matter
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 4
yam
=> root vegetable
=> vegetable, veggie
=> produce, green goods, green groceries, garden truck
=> food, solid food
=> solid
=> substance, matter
=> physical entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun yam
1 of 4 senses of yam
Sense 2
yam, yam plant
=> white yam, water yam, Dioscorea alata
=> cinnamon vine, Chinese yam, Dioscorea batata
=> air potato, Dioscorea bulbifera
=> cush-cush, Dioscorea trifida
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun yam
4 senses of yam
Sense 1
yam
=> tuber
Sense 2
yam, yam plant
=> vine
Sense 3
yam
=> sweet potato
Sense 4
yam
=> root vegetable
Antonyms of noun yam
Member Holonyms of noun yam
1 of 4 senses of yam
Sense 2
yam, yam plant
MEMBER OF: Dioscorea, genus Dioscorea
Substance Holonyms of noun yam
Part Holonyms of noun yam
1 of 4 senses of yam
Sense 1
yam
PART OF: yam, yam plant
Member Meronyms of noun yam
Substance Meronyms of noun yam
Part Meronyms of noun yam
1 of 4 senses of yam
Sense 2
yam, yam plant
HAS PART: yam
Meronyms of noun yam
1 of 4 senses of yam
Sense 2
yam, yam plant
HAS PART: yam
Holonyms of noun yam
2 of 4 senses of yam
Sense 1
yam
PART OF: yam, yam plant
Sense 2
yam, yam plant
MEMBER OF: Dioscorea, genus Dioscorea
Attributes of noun yam
Derived Forms of noun yam
Domain of noun yam
Domain Terms of noun yam
Familiarity of noun yam
yam used as a noun is uncommon (polysemy count =4)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun yam
4 senses of yam
Sense 1
yam
> tuber
=> water chestnut
=> groundnut, potato bean, wild bean
=> Jerusalem artichoke
=> yam
Sense 2
yam, yam plant
> vine
=> semi-climber
=> moonseed
=> clematis
=> allamanda
=> Nepal trumpet flower, Easter lily vine, Beaumontia grandiflora
=> star jasmine, confederate jasmine, Trachelospermum jasminoides
=> ivy, common ivy, English ivy, Hedera helix
=> birthwort, Aristolochia clematitis
=> bougainvillea
=> Barbados gooseberry, Barbados-gooseberry vine, Pereskia aculeata
=> climbing corydalis, Corydalis claviculata, Fumaria claviculata
=> climbing fumitory, Allegheny vine, Adlumia fungosa, Fumaria fungosa
=> German ivy, Delairea odorata, Senecio milkanioides
=> climbing hempweed, climbing boneset, wild climbing hempweed, climbing hemp-vine, Mikania scandens
=> yam, yam plant
=> elephant's-foot, tortoise plant, Hottentot bread vine, Hottentot's bread vine, Dioscorea elephantipes
=> wild yam, Dioscorea paniculata
=> black bryony, black bindweed, Tamus communis
=> gourd, gourd vine
=> squash, squash vine
=> bryony, briony
=> luffa, dishcloth gourd, sponge gourd, rag gourd, strainer vine
=> bower actinidia, tara vine, Actinidia arguta
=> Chinese gooseberry, kiwi, kiwi vine, Actinidia chinensis, Actinidia deliciosa
=> silvervine, silver vine, Actinidia polygama
=> passionflower, passionflower vine
=> hop, hops
=> salsilla, Bomarea edulis
=> salsilla, Bomarea salsilla
=> smilax, Asparagus asparagoides
=> sarsaparilla
=> bullbrier, greenbrier, catbrier, horse brier, horse-brier, brier, briar, Smilax rotundifolia
=> yellow jasmine, yellow jessamine, Carolina jasmine, evening trumpet flower, Gelsemium sempervirens
=> calabar-bean vine, Physostigma venenosum
=> hog peanut, wild peanut, Amphicarpaea bracteata, Amphicarpa bracteata
=> groundnut, groundnut vine, Indian potato, potato bean, wild bean, Apios americana, Apios tuberosa
=> jack bean, wonder bean, giant stock bean, Canavalia ensiformis
=> sword bean, Canavalia gladiata
=> butterfly pea, Centrosema virginianum
=> butterfly pea, Clitoria mariana
=> blue pea, butterfly pea, Clitoria turnatea
=> derris root, tuba root, Derris elliptica
=> Australian pea, Dipogon lignosus, Dolichos lignosus
=> Western Australia coral pea, Hardenbergia comnptoniana
=> coral pea
=> hyacinth bean, bonavist, Indian bean, Egyptian bean, Lablab purpureus, Dolichos lablab
=> vetchling
=> everlasting pea
=> sweet pea, sweetpea, Lathyrus odoratus
=> heath pea, earth-nut pea, earthnut pea, tuberous vetch, Lathyrus tuberosus
=> yam bean, Pachyrhizus erosus
=> yam bean, potato bean, Pachyrhizus tuberosus
=> winged bean, winged pea, goa bean, goa bean vine, Manila bean, Psophocarpus tetragonolobus
=> kudzu, kudzu vine, Pueraria lobata
=> wisteria, wistaria
=> silver lace vine, China fleece vine, Russian vine, Polygonum aubertii
=> partridgeberry, boxberry, twinberry, Mitchella repens
=> soapberry vine
=> bittersweet, American bittersweet, climbing bittersweet, false bittersweet, staff vine, waxwork, shrubby bittersweet, Celastrus scandens
=> Japanese bittersweet, Japan bittersweet, oriental bittersweet, Celastrus orbiculatus, Celastric articulatus
=> evergreen bittersweet, Euonymus fortunei radicans, Euonymus radicans vegetus
=> black-eyed Susan, black-eyed Susan vine, Thunbergia alata
=> cross vine, trumpet flower, quartervine, quarter-vine, Bignonia capreolata
=> convolvulus
=> bindweed
=> silverweed
=> dodder
=> dichondra, Dichondra micrantha
=> morning glory
=> ground ivy, alehoof, field balm, gill-over-the-ground, runaway robin, Glechoma hederaceae, Nepeta hederaceae
=> potato tree, Solanum crispum
=> Uruguay potato, Uruguay potato vine, Solanum commersonii
=> wild potato, Solanum jamesii
=> potato vine, Solanum jasmoides
=> potato, white potato, white potato vine, Solanum tuberosum
=> potato vine, giant potato creeper, Solanum wendlandii
=> cock's eggs, Salpichroa organifolia, Salpichroa rhomboidea
=> climber
=> liana
=> grape, grapevine
=> Boston ivy, Japanese ivy, Parthenocissus tricuspidata
=> Virginia creeper, American ivy, woodbine, Parthenocissus quinquefolia
=> true pepper, pepper vine
=> cruel plant, Araujia sericofera
=> hoya
=> silk vine, Periploca graeca
=> soma, haoma, Sarcostemma acidum
=> negro vine, Vincetoxicum hirsutum, Vincetoxicum negrum
Sense 3
yam
> sweet potato
=> yam
Sense 4
yam
> root vegetable
=> potato, white potato, Irish potato, murphy, spud, tater
=> yam
=> sweet potato
=> Jerusalem artichoke, sunchoke
=> beet, beetroot
=> carrot
=> celeriac, celery root
=> salsify
=> parsnip
=> radish
=> turnip
=> taro, taro root, cocoyam, dasheen, edda
Meronyms of noun yam
4 senses of yam
Sense 1
yam
=> tuber
=> stalk, stem
HAS PART: internode
HAS PART: receptacle
=> plant organ
=> plant part, plant structure
=> natural object
=> whole, unit
HAS PART: part, portion
HAS PART: section, segment
Sense 2
yam, yam plant
HAS PART: yam
=> vine
=> vascular plant, tracheophyte
HAS PART: vascular system
HAS PART: vessel, vas
HAS PART: vascular tissue
HAS PART: duct
HAS PART: vascular tissue
=> plant, flora, plant life
HAS PART: plant part, plant structure
=> organism, being
HAS SUBSTANCE: tissue
HAS PART: cell
HAS PART: cell membrane, cytomembrane, plasma membrane
HAS PART: energid, protoplast
HAS PART: cytoplasm, cytol
HAS PART: cytoskeleton
HAS PART: microsome
HAS PART: Golgi body, Golgi apparatus, Golgi complex, dictyosome
HAS PART: nucleus, cell nucleus, karyon
HAS PART: nucleolus, nucleole
HAS PART: chromatin, chromatin granule
HAS PART: achromatin
HAS PART: linin
HAS PART: chromosome
HAS PART: nucleolus organizer, nucleolus organiser, nucleolar organizer, nucleolar organiser
HAS PART: gene, cistron, factor
HAS PART: chromatid
HAS PART: centromere, kinetochore
HAS PART: telomere
HAS PART: organelle, cell organelle, cell organ
HAS PART: vacuole
HAS PART: body part
HAS PART: corpus
Holonyms of noun yam
2 of 4 senses of yam
Sense 1
yam
PART OF: yam, yam plant
Sense 2
yam, yam plant
MEMBER OF: Dioscorea, genus Dioscorea
MEMBER OF: Dioscoreaceae, family Dioscoreaceae, yam family
MEMBER OF: Liliales, order Liliales
MEMBER OF: Liliidae, subclass Liliidae
MEMBER OF: Monocotyledones, class Monocotyledones, Monocotyledonae, class Monocotyledonae, Liliopsida, class Liliopsida
MEMBER OF: Angiospermae, class Angiospermae, Magnoliophyta, division Magnoliophyta, Anthophyta, division Anthophyta
MEMBER OF: Spermatophyta, division Spermatophyta
MEMBER OF: Plantae, kingdom Plantae, plant kingdom
Grep of noun yam
chinese yam
cocoyam
elephant yam
omar khayyam
water yam
white yam
wild yam
yam
yam bean
yam family
yam plant
yama
yamaltu
yamamoto
yamani
yamoussukro
Grep of verb yam
yammer
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