white potato vine

white potato vine
noun
annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers; widely cultivated as a garden vegetable; vines are poisonous
Hypernyms: ↑vine
Member Holonyms: ↑Solanum, ↑genus Solanum
Part Meronyms: ↑potato, ↑white potato, ↑Irish potato, ↑murphy, ↑spud, ↑tater

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