WILD BEAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wild bean mean? 

• WILD BEAN (noun)
  The noun WILD BEAN has 2 senses:

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

2. nutlike tuber; important food of Native Americans

  Familiarity information: WILD BEAN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WILD BEAN (noun)

Sense 1

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 ("wild 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 "wild bean"):

groundnut; potato bean; wild bean (nutlike tuber; important food of Native Americans)

Holonyms ("wild bean" is a member of...):

Apios; genus Apios (twining perennial North American plants)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Nutlike tuber; important food of Native Americans

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

groundnut; potato bean; wild bean

Hypernyms ("wild bean" is a kind of...):

tuber (a fleshy underground stem or root serving for reproductive and food storage)

Holonyms ("wild 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)