wild potato vine

1. 1.

   tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root; sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato

   Synonymswild sweet potato vineman-of-the-earthmanrootscammonyrootIpomoea panurataIpomoea fastigiata

   Broadermorning glory

Questions about wild potato vine

What does wild potato vine mean?

wild potato vine means "tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root; sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato".

What is another word for wild potato vine?

Close synonyms include wild sweet potato vine, man-of-the-earth, manroot, scammonyroot, Ipomoea panurata. 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 vine a common word?

wild potato vine 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.