| wild bean 
 
 1. a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers;
 important food crop of Native Americans
 • Syn:
 groundnut, groundnut vine, Indian potato, potato bean, Apios americana, Apios tuberosa
 • Hypernyms:
 vine
 • Member Holonyms:
 Apios, genus Apios
 • Part Meronyms:
 groundnut, potato bean
 2. nutlike tuber;
 important food of Native Americans
 • Syn:
 groundnut, potato bean
 • Hypernyms:
 tuber
 • Part Holonyms:
 groundnut, groundnut vine, Indian potato, potato bean, Apios americana, Apios tuberosa
 
 
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