yam bean

yam bean
noun
1. Central American twining plant with edible roots and pods; large tubers are eaten raw or cooked especially when young and young pods must be thoroughly cooked; pods and seeds also yield rotenone and oils
• Syn: ↑Pachyrhizus erosus
• Hypernyms: ↑vine
• Member Holonyms: ↑Pachyrhizus, ↑genus Pachyrhizus
2. twining plant of Amazon basin having large edible roots
• Hypernyms: ↑vine
• Member Holonyms: ↑Pachyrhizus, ↑genus Pachyrhizus

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noun
: a tropical twining plant (Pachyrhizus erosus) with tuberous roots resembling turnips which are eaten raw as a salad or cooked and edible pods and seeds which yield rotenone and oils

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