potato bean

English Thesaurus

1. nutlike tuber; important food of Native Americans (noun.food)

hypernym	:	tuber,
definition	:	a fleshy underground stem or root serving for reproductive and food storage (noun.plant)

part meronym	:	apios americana, apios tuberosa, groundnut, groundnut vine, indian potato, potato bean, wild bean,
definition	:	a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans (noun.plant)

2. a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	vine,
definition	:	a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface (noun.plant)

part holonym	:	groundnut, potato bean, wild bean,
definition	:	nutlike tuber; important food of Native Americans (noun.food)

member meronym	:	apios, genus apios,
definition	:	twining perennial North American plants (noun.plant)

3. twining plant of Amazon basin having large edible roots (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	vine,
definition	:	a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	genus pachyrhizus, pachyrhizus,
definition	:	small genus of tropical vines having tuberous roots (noun.plant)