noun
1. a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans
• Syn: ↑groundnut, ↑groundnut vine, ↑potato bean, ↑wild bean, ↑Apios americana, ↑Apios tuberosa
• Hypernyms: ↑vine
• Member Holonyms: ↑Apios, ↑genus Apios
• Part Meronyms: ↑groundnut, ↑potato bean, ↑wild bean
2. very tall American perennial of central and the eastern United States to Canada having edible tuberous roots
• Syn: ↑giant sunflower, ↑tall sunflower, ↑Helianthus giganteus
• Hypernyms: ↑sunflower, ↑helianthus
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nounUsage: usually capitalized I
: any of several American plants with edible tuberous roots: as
a. : groundnut 2a
b. : giant sunflower
c. : breadroot 1
d. : a yamp (Carum gairdneri)
Useful english dictionary. 2012.