indian potato

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indian potato - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Indian potato
      n 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
           , wild bean, Apios americana, Apios tuberosa]
      2: very tall American perennial of central and the eastern
         United States to Canada having edible tuberous roots [syn:
         giant sunflower, tall sunflower, Indian potato,
         Helianthus giganteus]