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POTATO BEAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does potato bean mean?
• POTATO BEAN (noun)
The noun POTATO BEAN has 3 senses:
1. twining plant of Amazon basin having large edible roots
2. a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans
3. nutlike tuber; important food of Native Americans
Familiarity information: POTATO BEAN used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Twining plant of Amazon basin having large edible roots
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Pachyrhizus tuberosus; potato bean; yam bean
Hypernyms ("potato bean" is a kind of...):
vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)
Holonyms ("potato bean" is a member of...):
genus Pachyrhizus; Pachyrhizus (small genus of tropical vines having tuberous roots)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Apios americana; Apios tuberosa; groundnut; groundnut vine; Indian potato; potato bean; wild bean
Hypernyms ("potato bean" is a kind of...):
vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)
Meronyms (parts of "potato bean"):
groundnut; potato bean; wild bean (nutlike tuber; important food of Native Americans)
Holonyms ("potato bean" is a member of...):
Apios; genus Apios (twining perennial North American plants)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Nutlike tuber; important food of Native Americans
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Synonyms:
groundnut; potato bean; wild bean
Hypernyms ("potato bean" is a kind of...):
tuber (a fleshy underground stem or root serving for reproductive and food storage)
Holonyms ("potato bean" is a part of...):
Apios americana; Apios tuberosa; groundnut; groundnut vine; Indian potato; potato bean; wild bean (a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans)
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