wild bean

wild bean
noun
1. a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans
Hypernyms: ↑vine
Member Holonyms: ↑Apios, ↑genus Apios
Part Meronyms: ↑groundnut, ↑potato bean
2. nutlike tuber; important food of Native Americans
Syn: ↑groundnut, ↑potato bean
Hypernyms: ↑tuber

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noun
: any of various wild plants of the family Leguminosae; especially : any of various plants of the genera Phaseolus, Apios, and Strophostyles

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1. groundnut (def. 1).
2. any of several other leguminous plants, esp. of the genus Strophostyles.
[1770-80, Amer.]

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