solanum tuberosum

1. 1.

   annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers; widely cultivated as a garden vegetable; vines are poisonous

   Synonymspotatowhite potatowhite potato vine

   Broadervine

   Part ofSolanum

   Partspotato

Questions about solanum tuberosum

What does solanum tuberosum mean?

solanum tuberosum means "annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers; widely cultivated as a garden vegetable; vines are poisonous".

What is another word for solanum tuberosum?

Close synonyms include potato, white potato, white potato vine. 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 solanum tuberosum a common word?

solanum tuberosum 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.