NOUN | plant | wild bean, groundnut, groundnut vine, Indian potato, potato bean, Apios americana, Apios tuberosa | a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers |
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food | wild bean, groundnut, potato bean | nutlike tuber |
Meaning | A North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans. | |
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Synonyms | groundnut, groundnut vine, Indian potato, potato bean, Apios americana, Apios tuberosa | |
Member of | Apios, genus Apios | Twining perennial North American plants |
Parts | groundnut, potato bean, wild bean | nutlike tuber |
Broader | vine | A plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface |
Spanish | chufa |
Meaning | nutlike tuber; important food of Native Americans. | |
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Synonyms | groundnut, potato bean | |
Part of | groundnut, groundnut vine, Indian potato, potato bean, wild bean, Apios americana, Apios tuberosa | A North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers |
Broader | tuber | A fleshy underground stem or root serving for reproductive and food storage |
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