A leguminous, twining plant (Apios tuberosa), producing clusters of dark purple flowers and having a root tuberous and pleasant to the taste
flexuosum, having an edible root of a globular shape and sweet, aromatic taste; called also earthnut, earth chestnut, hawknut, and pignut
nutlike tuber; important food of Native Americans a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans
pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms
A groundnut is a peanut. a peanut or peanut plant. Any of several plants that bear edible fruit or other nutlike parts. Three are legumes: Arachis hypogaea, the peanut, the fruit of which is a legume or pod rather than a true nut; Apois americana, also called wild bean and potato bean, the tubers of which are edible; and Lathyrus tuberosa, also called earth-nut pea. Cyperus esculentus, nut sedge or yellow nut grass, is a papyrus relative (sedge family) that also bears edible tubers, especially in the variety called chufa or earth almond
{i} North American plant with an edible tuber; any of a number of plants with edible parts that grow underground (i.e. peanut)