man-of-the-earth

noun

1. tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root; sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato

• Syn: ↑wild potato vine, ↑wild sweet potato vine, ↑manroot, ↑scammonyroot, ↑Ipomoea panurata, ↑Ipomoea fastigiata

• Hypernyms: ↑morning glory

2. a morning glory with long roots of western United States

• Syn: ↑Ipomoea leptophylla

• Hypernyms: ↑morning glory

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\\ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˈ ̷ ̷\ noun (plural men-of-the-earth or men-of-the-earths)

1. : an American morning glory (Ipomoea pandurata) having an enormous starchy root — called also manroot, wild potato

2. : a long rooted morning glory (Ipomoea leptophylla) of the western United States

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/man"euhv dhee errth', -errth"/, n., pl. men-of-the-earth, man-of-the-earths.

a morning glory, Ipomoea pandurata, of eastern North America, having white flowers and a very large, tuberous root. Also called manroot, wild potato, wild sweet potato.

[1825-35, Amer.]

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man-of-the-earth «MAN uhv thee URTH», noun, plural men-of-the-earth.

a trailing plant of the morning-glory family of the eastern United States having a very large root.

╂[< the shape of the root]