APIOS TUBEROSA

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Meaning:

A North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Apios tuberosa" is a kind of...):

vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)

Meronyms (parts of "Apios tuberosa"):

groundnut; potato bean; wild bean (nutlike tuber; important food of Native Americans)

Holonyms ("Apios tuberosa" is a member of...):

Apios; genus Apios (twining perennial North American plants)