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    WILD BEAN

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Nutlike tuber; important food of Native Americansplay

    Synonyms:

    groundnut; potato bean; wild bean

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting foods and drinks

    Hypernyms ("wild bean" is a kind of...):

    tuber (a fleshy underground stem or root serving for reproductive and food storage)

    Holonyms ("wild bean" is a part of...):

    Apios americana; Apios tuberosa; groundnut; groundnut vine; Indian potato; potato bean; wild bean (a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    A North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americansplay

    Synonyms:

    Apios americana; Apios tuberosa; groundnut; groundnut vine; Indian potato; potato bean; wild bean

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("wild bean" is a kind of...):

    vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)

    Meronyms (parts of "wild bean"):

    groundnut; potato bean; wild bean (nutlike tuber; important food of Native Americans)

    Holonyms ("wild bean" is a member of...):

    Apios; genus Apios (twining perennial North American plants)

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