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Definition of Potato bean
1. Noun. Twining plant of Amazon basin having large edible roots.
Group relationships: Genus Pachyrhizus, Pachyrhizus
Generic synonyms: Vine
2. Noun. A North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans.
Terms within: Groundnut, Wild Bean
Group relationships: Apios, Genus Apios
Generic synonyms: Vine
3. Noun. Nutlike tuber; important food of Native Americans.
Group relationships: Apios Americana, Apios Tuberosa, Groundnut, Groundnut Vine, Indian Potato, Wild Bean
Generic synonyms: Tuber
Lexicographical Neighbors of Potato Bean
Literary usage of Potato bean
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Outline of an Elementary Course in Microbiology by Jean Broadhurst (1918)
"Test (if new to you) each of the substances in the accompanying dish for starch:
cracker, while potato, sweet potato, bean seed. 3. ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Among the plants subject to blight are the apple, pear, potato, bean, strawberry,
eggplant, currant, grape and raspberry. See sections on diseases in ..."
3. How Plants are Trained to Work for Man by Luther Burbank (1921)
"CORN -THE KING OF AMERICA'S CROPS NOT ONLY BETTER CORN BUT A BETTER PLANT — AND
WHY potato, bean, and Indian corn or maize JL ..."
4. Therapeutic Gazette (1904)
"Vegetable soups—pea, asparagus, celery, potato, bean, tomato—are nutritive and
appetizing. When all active rheumatic manifestations have been dispelled, ..."
5. The Ohio Educational Monthly and the National Teacher: A Journal of Education by Ohio State Teachers Association (1896)
"Now for example, scrape the fresh and moist surface of a potato, bean, grain of
wheat or corn, and a quantity of starch will be obtained. ..."
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