Indian potato
n 1: a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible
tubers; important food crop of Native Americans [syn:
{groundnut}, {groundnut vine}, {Indian potato}, {potato
bean}, {wild bean}, {Apios americana}, {Apios tuberosa}]
2: very tall American perennial of central and the eastern
United States to Canada having edible tuberous roots [syn:
{giant sunflower}, {tall sunflower}, {Indian potato},
{Helianthus giganteus}]