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Princeton's WordNet

  1. white yam, water yam, Dioscorea alatanoun

    grown in Australasia and Polynesia for its large root with fine edible white flesh

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  1. water yam

    Dioscorea alata, also known as purple yam, ube (, ), or greater yam, among many other names, is a species of yam (a tuber). The tubers are usually a vivid violet-purple to bright lavender in color (hence the common name), but some range in color from cream to plain white. It is sometimes confused with taro and the Okinawa sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas cv. Ayamurasaki), although D. alata is also grown in Okinawa, where it is known as beniimo (紅芋). With its origins in the Asian tropics, D. alata has been known to humans since ancient times.

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  1. water yam

    Water yam is a variety of yam, scientifically known as Dioscorea Alata, which is a tropical vine plant native to Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean. It is a starchy root vegetable, often larger in size compared to other types of yams, with a rough skin exterior and white or sometimes purple or red flesh. It is often cultivated and eaten for its nutritional value and can be cooked in various ways for consumption. Its name "water yam" comes from the fact that it requires a lot of water to grow.

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  1. Water Yam

    Water Yam is an artist's book by the American artist George Brecht. Originally published in Germany, June 1963 in a box designed by George Maciunas and typeset by Tomas Schmit, it has been re-published in various countries several times since. It is now considered one of the most influential artworks released by Fluxus, the internationalist avant-garde art movement active predominantly in the 1960s and '70s. The box, sometimes referred to as a Fluxbox or Fluxkit, contains a large number of small printed cards, containing instructions known as event-scores, or fluxscores. Typically open-ended, these scores, whether performed in public, private or left to the imagination, leave a lot of space for chance and indeterminancy, forcing a large degree of interpretation upon the performers and audience. In some cases [event-scores] would arise out of the creation of the object, while in others the object was discovered and Brecht subsequently wrote a score for it, thus highlighting the relationship between language and perception. Or, in the words of the artist, “ensuring that the details of everyday life, the random constellations of objects that surround us, stop going unnoticed.” The event-score was as much a critique of conventional artistic representation as it was a gesture of firm resistance against individual alienation.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of water yam in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of water yam in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

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