solanum tuberosum

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.