wild potato

1. 1.

   erect or spreading perennial of southwestern United States and Mexico bearing small pale brown to cream-colored tubers resembling potatoes

   SynonymsSolanum jamesii

   Broadervine

   Part ofSolanum

Questions about wild potato

What does wild potato mean?

wild potato means "erect or spreading perennial of southwestern United States and Mexico bearing small pale brown to cream-colored tubers resembling potatoes".

What is another word for wild potato?

Close synonyms include Solanum jamesii. 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 potato a common word?

wild potato 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.