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WILD POTATO VINE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does wild potato vine mean?
• WILD POTATO VINE (noun)
The noun WILD POTATO VINE has 1 sense:
1. tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root; sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato
Familiarity information: WILD POTATO VINE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root; sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Ipomoea fastigiata; Ipomoea panurata; man-of-the-earth; manroot; scammonyroot; wild potato vine; wild sweet potato vine
Hypernyms ("wild potato vine" is a kind of...):
morning glory (any of various twining vines having funnel-shaped flowers that close late in the day)
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