Indian potato

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Any of several kinds of North American plants with edible, starchy bulbs or other underground structures, such as mariposa lilies, groundnuts, etc., especially; Apios americana (American potato-bean), a terrestrial plant native to eastern North America;
  2. 2
    very tall American perennial of central and the eastern United States to Canada having edible tuberous roots wordnet
  3. 3
    Any of several kinds of North American plants with edible, starchy bulbs or other underground structures, such as mariposa lilies, groundnuts, etc., especially; Orogenia spp. (now in Lomatium), a terrestrial plant native to western North America;
  4. 4
    a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans wordnet
  5. 5
    Any of several kinds of North American plants with edible, starchy bulbs or other underground structures, such as mariposa lilies, groundnuts, etc., especially; Sagittaria latifolia (broadleaf arrowhead, duck potato), an aquatic plant native to North and South America.

Etymology

From Indian + potato.

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