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erect or spreading perennial of southwestern United States and Mexico bearing small pale brown to cream-colored tubers resembling potatoes

1. : man-of-the-earth 1

2. : a tropical American plant (Ipomoea fastigiata) sometimes held to be the source of the sweet potato

3. : wapatoo

4. : a spring beauty (Claytonia virginica)

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

2. man-of-the-earth.

[1765-75, Amer.]