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potato bean

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ground⋅nut

[ground-nuht]
–noun
1. Also called wild bean, potato bean. a twining, North American plant, Apios americana (or A. tuberosa), of the legume family, having clusters of fragrant brownish flowers and an edible tuber.
2. any of several other plants having edible underground parts, as the peanut.
3. South Atlantic States. peanut.

Origin:
1595–1605; ground 1 + nut
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potato bean

noun
1. twining plant of Amazon basin having large edible roots [syn: yam bean
2. a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans [syn: groundnut
3. nutlike tuber; important food of Native Americans [syn: groundnut
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