Indian potato
n 1: a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible
tubers; important food crop of Native Americans [syn: groundnut,
groundnut vine, 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, Helianthus
giganteus]