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Definition of Sweet potato vine

1. Noun. Pantropical vine widely cultivated in several varieties for its large sweet tuberous root with orange flesh.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sweet Potato Vine

Literary usage of Sweet potato vine

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Negro Folk Rhymes: Wise and Otherwise by Thomas Washington Talley (1922)
"GRASSHOPPER SITTING ON A sweet potato vine GRASSHOPPER a settin' on a sweet tater vine, 'Long come a Blackbird an' nab him up behind. ..."

2. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"A grasshopper sat on a sweet-potato vine, Sweet-potato vine, Sweet-potato vine, A big wild turkey came running up behin', And yanked the poor grasshopper ..."

3. Log-book of a Fisherman and Zoologist by Francis Trevelyan Buckland (1883)
"... in which the sweet potato and the turkey are rendered immortal :— A grasshopper sat on a sweet-potato vine, Sweet-potato vine, Sweet-potato vine; ..."

4. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"A grasshopper sat on n sweet-potato vine, A sweet-potato vine, A sweet-potato vine, A great turkey gobbler came running up ..."

5. The Methodist Review (1882)
"... eat on a sweet-potato vine, Sweet-potato vine, A big wild turkey came running up behin', And yanked the poor grasshopper Off the sweet- potato vine, ..."

6. A Summer Cruise on the Coast of New England by Robert Carter (1888)
"It began : — " The grasshopper sat on the sweet-potato vine, Up came the turkey-gobbler and yanked him off behind." The second stanza, intended to show the ..."

7. The Minnesota Horticulturist by Minnesota State Horticultural Society (1895)
"The sweet potato vine very much resembles wild buckwheat. After the vines have made some growth, they send out roots which may make small tubers, ..."

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