1. (noun)groundnut, groundnut vine, Indian potato, potato bean, wild bean, Apios americana, Apios tuberosa a NorthAmericanvine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important foodcrop of Native Americans
2. (noun)groundnut, potato bean, wild bean nutlike tuber; important food of Native Americans
3. (noun)peanut, earthnut, goober, goober pea, groundnut, monkey nut pod of the peanutvine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are Britishterms
2. (noun)groundnut a leguminous, twining plant (Apios tuberosa), producing clusters of darkpurple flowers and having a root tuberous and pleasant to the taste
3. (noun)groundnut the dwarfginseng (Aralia trifolia)
4. (noun)groundnut a Europeanplant of the genus Bunium (B. flexuosum), having an edibleroot of a globular shape and sweet, aromatic taste; -- called also earthnut, earth chestnut, hawknut, and pignut
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