apios americana

1. 1.

   a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans

   Synonymsgroundnutgroundnut vineIndian potatopotato beanwild beanApios tuberosa

   Broadervine

   Part ofApios

   Partsgroundnut

Questions about apios americana

What does apios americana mean?

apios americana means "a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans".

What is another word for apios americana?

Close synonyms include groundnut, groundnut vine, Indian potato, potato bean, wild bean. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is apios americana a common word?

apios americana is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.