Yams Sentence Examples

Cotton, Indian corn, sweet potatoes, yams and rice are small crops.

Millet, wheat, sweet potatoes, yams and tares are also grown.

White and sweet potatoes, yams, sweet and bitter yuccas, sago and okra, may also be mentioned.

Sam's Yams Veggie Rawhide Dog Treats - The word "rawhide" is a bit of a misnomer here since the company say it's treats are made from thick slabs of dehydrated sweet potatoes.

Instead of filling up with pasta, bread and cereal, choose brown rice and yams.

Fried fish, potato salad, seasoned rice, candied yams, and greens---this is the kind of fare that will fill you up and leave you yearning for more.

Enough of the rocky surface is covered with a thin coating of soil to enable the natives to grow yams, taro, bananas, &c., for their support; cotton thrives well, and has even been exported in small quantities, but there is no space available for its cultivation on any considerable scale.

Among the products are coco-nuts, sago, fish, trepang, timber, copra, maize, yams and tobacco.

Yams and sweet-potatoes, yuccas, malangas, cacao, rice - which is one of the most important foods of the people, but which is not yet widely cultivated on a profitable basis - and Indian corn, which grows everywhere and yields two crops yearly, may be mentioned also.

Palm-oil, timber, rubber, yams and shea-butter are the chief articles of trade.

Other agricultural products are sweet potatoes, cassava (manioc), yuca, yams, white potatoes, maguey, okra, peanuts, pease, all the vegetables of the hot and temperate climates, oranges, lemons, limes, bananas, plantains, figs, grapes, coco-nuts, pine-apples, strawberries, plums, guavas, breadfruit, mangoes and many others.

The numbers go up to five, and for living objects the word bird is added, for inanimate yam, for large objects ship.'- There are other terms for bundles of sugarcanes, rows (planted) of yams, &c.; and sometimes things are counted by threes.

Patches of land, chiefly around the coast, have been laid under rice, sweet potatoes and yams, but the island is hardly able to raise a home-supply of vegetables.

The soil, though thin, is, as in other limestone islands, very rich, and coco-nuts, tara, yams and bananas thrive.

The cultivated products include coffee, the Coco-nut palm, tobacco, sugar-cane, cotton, vanilla, sorghum, earthnuts, sesame, maize, rice, beans, peas, bananas (in large quantities), yams, manioc and hemp. Animal products are ivory, hides, tortoiseshell and pearls.

There is a governing body chosen from among the islanders, the constitution of which has been altered more than once owing to internal jealousies, &c. The island produces sweet potatoes, yams, melons, bananas and other fruits, arrowroot and coffee.

All the islands possess a very fertile soil; there are forests of coco-nut palms, and among the products are rice, maize, sweetpotatoes, yams, coffee, cotton, vanilla and various tropical fruits, the papaw tree being abundant.

Sugar, rum and molasses are exported, and corn, yams, coffee and fruit are grown.

The principal cultivated plants, apart from sugar-cane and coffee, are rice (in great variety of kinds), the coco-nut palm, the areng palm, the areca and the sago palms, maize, yams, and sweet potatoes; and among the fruit trees are the Indian tamarind, pomegranate, guava, papaw, orange and lemon.

The country round the towns, however, is cultivated with care, the fields yielding in abundance grain, yams, vegetables and fruits.

The natives grow several kinds of bananas, yams and batatas, maize, pea-nuts, sugar-cane, sorghum and pepper.

The natives of the coast region cultivate yams and other food plants, but in that district agriculture proper scarcely exists, the fruit of the oil-palm supplying an easy means of obtaining almost everything that the natives require.

Sweet potatoes, ground nuts, yams, onions and other vegetables are largely grown.

Many of the roots and vegetables of Europe have been introduced, as well as some of those peculiar to the tropics, including maize, millet, yams, manioc, dhol, gram, &c. Small quantities of tea, rice and sago, have been grown, as well as many of the spices (cloves, nutmeg, ginger, pepper and allspice),' and also cotton, indigo, betel, camphor, turmeric and vanilla.

They cultivate rice, cotton, yams and Indian corn, and prepare salt from the brine springs in their hills.

Strawberries and Sahara dates; alfalfa, wheat, barley, corn and sorghum; oranges, lemons, wine grapes, limes, olives, figs, dates, peanuts and sweet potatoes; yams and sugar beets, show the range of agricultural products.

There are many coco-nut palms, bread-fruit trees (Artocarpus incisa), various kinds of bananas, yams and taro, and pandanus, of which the natives eat the seeds.

Durra, ground-nuts, yams and cotton are the principal products, and the palm and banana abound.

Bananas, yams, &c., were also largely cultivated, and there was considerable trade in coco-nut oil, timber, fish and fish oil and tortoise-shell, whaling being carried on, chiefly by Americans and French, in the neighbouring seas.

The tropical productions of the lower plains include, among others, many of the leading products of the world, such as cacao, cotton, sugar, rice, tobacco, and bananas, with others destined wholly for home consumption, as yams, cassava and arracacha.

Yams, sweet potatoes, cassava and arracacha are chiefly cultivated for domestic needs, but in common with other fruits and vegetables they give occupation to the small agriculturalists near the larger towns.

Sugar and pineapples are the chief products for export, but sweet potatoes, yams, maize and guinea corn are grown for local consumption.

Yams, taro and sweet potatoes constitute in some districts the main food of the people, while in others sago is the staple diet.

Among the food-giving plants are rice - the staff of life to the majority of the Malagasy - in many varieties, maize, millet, manioc, yams,;sweet-potatoes, arrowroot, which is largely used by the western tribes - as well as numerous vegetables, many of them of foreign introduction.

The soil is mostly fertile, and is fairly cultivated, producing in abundance millet, yams, plantains and limes.

The vegetable products comprise bananas, bread-fruit, yams, plantains, wild cotton, bamboos, sugar-cane, coco-nut and dwarf palms, and several kinds of timber trees.

Resigned to his loss, Sasshi declares his intention to go home, eat yams, fart, and hit the sack.

Rita even managed to buy some yams from them for supper.

In Ghana, farmers plant up to 54 different varieties of climbing yams (Dioscorea spp.) inside the forest to protect the vegetables.

The climate is suited not only to banana production but also to growing yams, dasheen, mangoes and coconuts.

Dec 9th WARWAR MARKET a fair number of women selling yams, corn, cassava, and groundnuts.

Hoe with a tanged disk blade, used in scooping earth into mounds for planting yams (like potatoes ).

Yams, several kinds of sweet potatoes, melons, pumpkins, cucumbers, pineapples, bananas and mangosteens are cultivated, as also are a large number of other fruits.

In some areas yams are being replaced by other tuber crops which are easier to cultivate or store.

Hoe with a tanged disk blade, used in scooping earth into mounds for planting yams (like potatoes).

Certain foods may contain higher levels of hormones that are similar to estrogen, such as yams, which may influence ovulation and conception.

Food storage for root vegetables such as potatoes, yams, onions, and squash should always be in cool, dry place.

They also planted and harvested yams, peanuts, black-eyed peas, tomatoes, melons, tea, potatoes, and cabbage.

Sweet potato pie is another variation on the traditional candied yams.

Yams are actually tubers grown in Africa, the Caribbean and other warm locations.

The chief groups, all yielding coco-nuts, pandanus fruit and yams, are Funafuti or Ellice, Nukulailai or Mitchell, Nurakita or Sophia, Nukufetau or De Peyster, Nui or Egg, Nanomana or Hudson, and Niutao or Lynx.

Tobacco, maize, sweet potatoes, yams, kava, taro, beans and pumpkins, are the principal crops.