potato vine

Questions about potato vine

What does potato vine mean?

potato vine means "vine of Costa Rica sparsely armed with hooklike spines and having large lilac-blue flowers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for potato vine?

Close synonyms include giant potato creeper, Solanum wendlandii, Solanum jasmoides. 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 vine a common word?

potato vine is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.