groundnut vine

Questions about groundnut vine

What does groundnut vine mean?

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

What is another word for groundnut vine?

Close synonyms include groundnut, Indian potato, potato bean, wild bean, Apios americana. 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 groundnut vine a common word?

groundnut vine 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.