wild potato

noun

a plant, Solanum jamesii, of the southwestern U.S., related to the edible cultivated potato.
man-of-the-earth.

An Americanism dating back to 1765–75

Even the wild potato found in the Yellowstone Country is thought one of the best of edible wild roots.

The wild potato strongly resembles the species now in use in Europe, but the stem and leaf are essentially different.

The wild potato grows on these islands in great abundance, on the sandy, shelly soil near the sea-beach.

Mr. Reed told the children about the wild potato, which belongs to South America.

The Abnaki name of the wild potato or ground-nut was pen, pl.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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