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 

• POTATO BEAN (noun)

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)