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BOMAREA SALSILLA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tropical vine having umbels of small purple flowers and edible roots sometimes boiled as a potato substitute; Colombia
Synonyms:
Bomarea salsilla; salsilla
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Bomarea salsilla" is a kind of...):
vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)
Holonyms ("Bomarea salsilla" is a member of...):
Bomarea; genus Bomarea (large genus of tropical American vines having showy often spotted umbellate flowers; sometimes placed in family Liliaceae especially subfamily Alstroemeriaceae)