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Apios

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a·pi·o  p-)
n. pl. a·pi·os
See arracacha.

[American Spanish, from Spanish, celery, from Latin apium, perhaps from apis, bee.]
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Noun1.Apios - twining perennial North American plantsApios - twining perennial North American plants
rosid dicot genus - a genus of dicotyledonous plants
Papilionoideae, subfamily Papilionoideae - alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae
Apios americana, Apios tuberosa, groundnut, groundnut vine, Indian potato, wild bean, potato bean - a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans


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Groundnut is the common name, but it is known to botanists as Apios americana.
He has completed worldwide treatments of the genera Apios and Cochlianthus.
 
 
 
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