Wild bean Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans
    Indian potato; Apios tuberosa; groundnut; Apios americana; potato bean; groundnut vine.
  2. noun nutlike tuber; important food of Native Americans
    potato bean; groundnut.

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Definitions
  1. (Bot.), a name of several leguminous plants, mostly species of Phaseolus and Apios.

Webster 1913