Meaning
A well-known Jamaican yam variety with firm, white flesh, popular in the market and the kitchen as a staple 'food' or ground provision. It sits among the other named yams — yellow yam, sweet yam, negro yam — each with its own texture, and the renta is favoured for boiling to go with the main meal. Named yam types like this are a mark of how central yam is to Jamaican country life.
Examples
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Buy a renta yam fi di Sunday dinner.
Buy a renta yam for the Sunday dinner.
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Di renta yam boil up nice an white.
The renta yam boils up nicely and white.
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Which yam yuh want, renta or yellow?
Which yam do you want, renta or yellow?
Origin
A Jamaican yam-variety name. See [[yellow-yam]], [[ground-provision]].
How it’s used
A firm, white-fleshed Jamaican yam variety. See [[yellow-yam]], [[ground-provision]].