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Yam or YAM may refer to:

Plants and foods

• Yam (vegetable), common name for members of Dioscorea
• Taro, known in Malaysia and Singapore as yam
• Sweet potato, specifically its orange-fleshed cultivars, often referred to as yams in North America
• Yam, a salad in Thai cuisine
• Oxalis tuberosa, referred to as yams in New Zealand and Polynesia
• Pachyrhizus erosus, called jícama, Mexican yam bean, or Mexican turnip, a tuberous root
• Konjac, Amorphophallus konjac
• Amorphophallus paeoniifolius, known commonly as elephant foot yam.it is really nice with sauce

Geography

• Yam, see Tavastians, old Russian and Ukrainian name for Häme, the tribe of western Finns
• Yam fortress, demolished Russian fortress in the modern town of Kingisepp, Russia
• Piyam, known also as Yam, a village in Marand County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran
• Yam, Alexandrovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, a village in Vladimir Oblast, Russia
• Yam, North Khorasan, a village in Faruj County, North Khorasan Province, Iran
• Yam, Razavi Khorasan, a village in Khoshab County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
• Yam, Tehran, a village in Pishva County, Tehran Province, Iran
• Yam Rural District, in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
• Yam Island (Queensland), an island in the Torres Strait
• Yam-Alin, a mountain range in far North-eastern Russia
• Sault Ste. Marie Airport, from its IATA airport code

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Topics referred to by the same term