potato bean

Questions about potato bean

What does potato bean mean?

potato bean means "twining plant of Amazon basin having large edible roots". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for potato bean?

Close synonyms include yam bean, Pachyrhizus tuberosus, groundnut, groundnut vine, Indian potato. 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 potato bean a common word?

potato bean is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.