apios tuberosa

Questions about apios tuberosa

What does apios tuberosa mean?

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

What is another word for apios tuberosa?

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 tuberosa a common word?

apios tuberosa 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.