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What  is the difference between sweet potatoes and yams? Sweet Potatoes, often called ‘yams’, are a dicot (a plant having two embryonic seed leaves) and are from the Convolvulacea or morning glory family. Yams. Yams are closely related to lilies and grasses. Native to Africa and Asia, yams vary in size from that of a small potato to a record 130 pounds (as of 1999).
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What's a Yat? Yat is a term for the quintessential neighborhood New Orleanian. It's derived from the local greeting, Where y'at!, although it tends not to be used by locals in the way it's used by outsiders. I never really heard the term while growing up, and neither did many of my fellow New Orleanians.
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Japanese Sweet Potato The Japanese Sweet Potato and the Japanese Yamaimo (Mountain Yam) are often confused as being the same potato however, they are two different tubers. The light tan outer skin color of Yamaimo is similar to a baking potato and differs in appearance from the reddish-pink skin coloring of the Japanese Sweet. The Japanese Yamaimo is a somewhat sticky, mountain yam which is the variety often used to make soba noodles.
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5 Winter Superfoods: Sweet Potatoes: Nutrient Profile Yams can grow up to 100 pounds and are rarely available in American supermarkets. Nutritionally, sweet potatoes greatly outweigh yams. Because of the common use of the term yam, it is acceptable to use this term when referring to sweet potatoes. Sweet potatoes contain an enzyme that converts most of its starches into sugars as the potato matures.
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- A yam a definition essay Essay on yam festival in nigeria, essay on exam results staar essay lined paper definition essay on my favourite story book in english quiz. love this...wanna know how to pronounce it
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Yam (vegetable) Yam (vegetable) For the vegetable sometimes called yam in the United States, see sweet potato. For the vegetable called yam in New Zealand, see Oxalis tuberosa. Yam is the common name for some plant species in the genus Dioscorea (family Dioscoreaceae) that form edible tubers. These are perennial herbaceous vines cultivated for the consumption of their starchy tubers in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Oceania. Many cultivars of yams are known.
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What  is the difference between sweet potatoes and yams? Yams are a monocot (a plant having one embryonic seed leaf) and from the Dioscoreaceae or Yam family. Yams. Yams are closely related to lilies and grasses. Native to Africa and Asia, yams vary in size from that of a small potato to a record 130 pounds (as of 1999).
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Wild Yam Benefits Wild Yam. Dioscorea villosa. Wild Yam Benefits. Wild Yam is a very good antispasmodic so is good for menstrual cramps, relaxing muscles, soothing nerves, relieving pain, poor circulation and neuralgia, for the inflammatory stage of rheumatoid arthritis and for abdominal and intestinal cramping.
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- Yam is the general word for sea, and when standing alone may refer to the Mediterranean, the Dead Sea, the Red Sea, or the Sea of Galilee. In several places it designates the river Nile or Euphrates. Cuph means a rush or seaweed such as abounds in the lower portions of the Nile and the upper portions of the Red Sea.he sea so called extends along the west coast of Arabia for about 1,400 miles, and separates Asia from Africa. It is connected with the Indian Ocean, of which it is an arm, by the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb.
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yam Definition of yam. 1  1 : the edible starchy tuberous root of various plants (genus Dioscorea of the family Dioscoreaceae) used as a staple food in tropical areas; also : a plant producing yams. 2  2 : a moist usually orange-fleshed sweet potato.
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Yams nutrition facts Yams are carbohydrate rich, staple tuber vegetables of West African origin. Botanically it belongs to the family Dioscoreaceae, in the genus, Dioscorea. There exist several hundred cultivars of Dioscorea; however, only a few of them worth of commercial importance.
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- Yamas (Sanskrit: यम), and its complement, Niyamas, represent a series of right living or ethical rules within Hinduism and Yoga. They are a form of moral imperatives, commandments, rules or goals. The Yamas are the don't do these list of self-restraints, typically representing commitments that affect one's relations with others and self.
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Pop Quiz: Sweet Potato or Yam? Sweet potatoes and yams are constantly confused for one another, but the the truth is what you’ve been calling a yam is most likely a sweet potato. Even more, it’s possible that you’ve never even tasted a yam!
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- Gim (food) Gim (Korean pronunciation: [ɡiːm]; Korean: 김), also spelled as kim, is the Korean word for edible seaweed in the genus Porphyra. It is similar to nori, a Japanese word for this seaweed and used in the production of sushi in Japan. Porphyra is also called laver in English.
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Sweet potato See also Yam (vegetable), Camotes Islands, and Ocarina. The sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the morning glory family, Convolvulaceae. Its large, starchy, sweet-tasting, tuberous roots are a root vegetable. The young leaves and shoots are sometimes eaten as greens.
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yaw Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Acronyms, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia. [yaw] 1. a lesion of yaws. 2. the deviation of an object from its usual path (see illustration). Effect of yaw on wounding potential. Yawing is the deviation of a bullet in its longitudinal axis from the straight line of flight. Modified from Swan and Swan, 1980.
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- [5] Yam: tribe and region in Nubia [6] Clapping: Songs to the harp are made for you, One sings to you with clapping hands; Hymn to the NileM. Lichtheim Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume 1, p.208 Clapping and stomping also had magical qualities.
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Wild Yam Dioscorea villosa How to Use: Wild Yam. Wild yam root is a potent source of diosgenin, a chemical that resembles female sex hormones and was used in the manufacture of the first oral contraceptives.
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yam the starchy, tuberous root of any of various climbing vines of the genus Dioscorea, cultivated for food in warm regions. 2. any of these plants. 3. the sweet potato.
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YAMS YAMS is the easiest way to install, setup and manage a Minecraft server on Windows, handling firewall rules, port forwarding* and even dynamic DNS with a free yams.in address.ith YAMS, the Minecraft Server application runs as a service, so as long as your computer is on, your Minecraft server is available. YAMS also helps you to automatically generate Google Maps of your worlds as well as static images and provides a nice easy way to share these with other people.
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- There may be several levels of electronic reporting: 1  Confirmation/rejection reports from EDI vendor. 2  Confirmation/rejection reports from EDI clearinghouse. 3  Confirmation/rejection reports from Health Net.
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What is the Difference Between Yay, Ya, Yah, and Yeah? Yay. The word yay is usually used as an interjection and exclamation to show joy. A person might say something like, Yay! My new kitten finally arrived! The word is likely derived from yea, meaning simply yes, but shifted spelling over time, perhaps to indicate excitement. Yay has the same pronunciation as yea and rhymes with hay.
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- New Zealand Yam - [oca, oka (Andean), Oxalis tuberosa] Neither a yam nor a sweet potato but a completely unrelated tuber from the Andean area of South America. See Oxalis Family.
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What Is The Difference Between A Sweet Potato And A Yam? a true yam is a starchy edible root of the dioscorea genus and is generally imported to america from the caribbean it is rough and scaly and very low in beta carotene depending on the variety sweet potato flesh can vary from white to orange and even purple
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definitions - hakhamreport a problem Hakham (or chakam(i), haham(i), hacham(i); Hebrew: חכם ‬ ḥaḵam, wise) is a term in Judaism, meaning a wise or skillful man; it often refers to someone who is a great Torah scholar. The word is generally used to designate a cultured and learned person: He who says a wise thing is called a hakham, even if he be not a Jew (Meg.16a).
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- Sweet Potatoes are an uncommon crop in the U.S., grown primarily in the south. Yams are a sub-tropical plant, native to the Caribbean and Asia, and imported into the U.S. and other countries.