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potato bean

DEFINITIONS OF: potato bean

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n a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans

Synonyms:
Apios americana, Apios tuberosa, Indian potato, groundnut, groundnut vine, wild bean
Type of:
vine
a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface

n nutlike tuber; important food of Native Americans

Synonyms:
groundnut, wild bean
Type of:
tuber
a fleshy underground stem or root serving for reproductive and food storage

n twining plant of Amazon basin having large edible roots

Synonyms:
Pachyrhizus tuberosus, yam bean
Type of:
vine
a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface
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