WILD SWEET POTATO VINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wild sweet potato vine mean? 

• WILD SWEET POTATO VINE (noun)
  The noun WILD SWEET 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 SWEET POTATO VINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WILD SWEET POTATO VINE (noun)

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 sweet potato vine" is a kind of...):

morning glory (any of various twining vines having funnel-shaped flowers that close late in the day)