scammonyroot

1 definition found

scammonyroot - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  scammonyroot
      n 1: tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous
           perennial having an enormous starchy root; sometimes held
           to be source of the sweet potato [syn: wild potato vine,
           wild sweet potato vine, man-of-the-earth, manroot,
           scammonyroot, Ipomoea panurata, Ipomoea fastigiata]