wild bean

Questions about wild bean

What does wild bean mean?

wild bean means "a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for wild bean?

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

wild bean 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.