Apios tuberosa

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Noun1.Apios tuberosa - a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubersApios tuberosa - a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans
Apios americana, groundnut, groundnut vine, Indian potato, wild bean, potato bean
groundnut, wild bean, potato bean - nutlike tuber; important food of Native Americans
Apios, genus Apios - twining perennial North American plants
vine - a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface
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Digging one day for fishworms, I discovered the ground-nut (Apios tuberosa) on its string, the potato of the aborigines, a sort of fabulous fruit, which I had begun to doubt if I had ever dug and eaten in childhood, as I had told, and had not dreamed it.
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Isoflavonoid phytoalexins from fungus-inoculated leaves of Apios tuberosa. Phytochemistry 21: 1409-1413.
Identification of genistein, an anticarcinogenic compound, in the edible tubers of the American groundnut (Apios americana Medikus)
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