Crossword-Solution: YAM 3 letters, 285 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Yam	n.	A large, esculent, farinaceous tuber of various climbing plants of the genus Dioscorea; also, the plants themselves. Mostly natives of warm climates. The plants have netted-veined, petioled leaves, and pods with three broad wings. The commonest species is D. sativa, but several others are cultivated.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
YAM	anagram	AMY, MAY, MYA, YMA

We have 285 clues for the answer “YAM”

Clue	Answers
"Candied" tuber	1 answer
"Candied" vegetable	1 answer
"Fam and ___," Albee play	1 answer
"I ___ what I . . . ": Popeye	1 answer
A tuber	1 answer
African root	1 answer
African tuber	1 answer
Agricultural item that Nigeria produces more of than the rest of the world combined	1 answer
Albee character	1 answer
BLACK bryony relative	1 answer
BONIATA	1 answer
Base of some fries	1 answer
Beta carotene source	1 answer
Camote	1 answer
Candied Thanksgiving dish	1 answer
Candied Thanksgiving food	1 answer
Candied comestible item	1 answer
Candied goody	1 answer
Candied holiday serving	1 answer
Candied potato	1 answer
Candied root vegetable	1 answer
Candied root veggie	1 answer
Candied side	1 answer
Candied treat	1 answer
Candied vegetable at Thanksgiving	1 answer
Candied veggie	1 answer
Cassava lookalike	1 answer
Certain tuber	1 answer
Chinese ___, food also called nagaimo	1 answer
Classic Thanksgiving veggie	1 answer
Common ingredient in Nigerian cuisine	1 answer
Commonly candied tuber	1 answer
Crop item grown in Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart"	1 answer
Crop revered by the Abelam people of Papua New Guinea	1 answer
Dinner table tuber	1 answer
Dixie favorite	1 answer
Dixie veggie	1 answer
Tuber often mistaken for a sweet potato	1 answer
Edible tuberous root	1 answer
Etor ingredient	1 answer
Exist, to Popeye?	1 answer
Fall stew tuber	1 answer
Farmer's-market purchase	1 answer
Favorite on Dixie's tables.	1 answer
Food also used as a verb in an old cartoon	1 answer
Food in Popeye's motto?	1 answer
Food item that may be candied	1 answer
Food often candied	1 answer
Food rich in beta carotene	1 answer
Food sometimes candied	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.

Hint 2 anagram

EARA

Hint 3 another clue

CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE

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Sentences with YAM (5)

Then, the introduction of the yam and the banana, as previously noted, significantly increased the food supply.

The Black Experience in America Norman Coombs 2008

There’s nae black man in a Ba’weary.” But she didnae speak plain, ye maun understand; but yam-yammered, like a powney wi’ the bit in its moo.

The Merry Men Robert Louis Stevenson 1995

When the harvest is over I'll show you what I have in my head, and before Christmas the fun will begin.” “What next?” “Sketch a sarsaparilla plant and this yam vine.

The Harvester Gene Stratton-Porter 1995

Campbell’s _Poenamo_ of a New Zealand girl, who was foolishly told that she had eaten a tapu yam, and who instantly sickened, and died in the two days of simple terror.

In the South Seas Robert Louis Stevenson 2012

This valley is, or was then, richly cultivated, principally with _taro_, a large root not unlike the yam.

Tracks of a Rolling Stone Henry J. Coke 2012

Quotes with YAM (3)

The most intelligent or brilliant of us all are not usually the most successful, financially or career wise. A lot depends on the ability of a person to break into circles, meet people, network and interact. A well marketed yam may sell better than a not-so-well marketed Jollof. Do not just stay in the library and read all the books there, lest you become publicly dusty like the books you read. Food for thought!

Magnus Nwagu Amudi

He feels a second pang now for the existence of perfection, the stubborn existence of perfection in the most vulnerable of things and in the face of his refusal-logical-admirable refusal-to engage with this existence in his heart, in his mind. For the comfortless logic, the curse of clear sight, no matter which string he pulls on the same wretched knot: (a) the futility of seeing given the fatality in a place such as this where a mother still bloody must bury her newborn, hos…

Taiye Selasi Ghana Must Go

Most people who lose their lives because life might be down for them only refuse to know what a tuber of yam that is put into the soil goes through before it comes up as a fresh green creeping plant to bear yet another bigger tuber

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Slate, Three Across, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 549 times in crossword archives (1948–2025).