| Webster's Online Dictionary |
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| Noun | 1. Twining perennial North American plants.[Wordnet]. | |
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Date "Apios" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1801. (references) |
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| Apios americana | A North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Apios americana | Apios americana, sometimes called the hog peanut, potato bean, or groundnut (but not to be confused with other plants sometimes known by the name groundnut) is a perennial vine native to eastern North America, and bears edible beans and large edible tubers. It grows to 3-4 m long, with pinnate leaves 8-15 cm long with 5-7 leaflets. The flowers are red-brown to purple, produced in dense racemes. The fruit is a legume (pod) 6-12 cm long. (references) | ||
| Apios priceana | Price's Potato-bean (Apios priceana) is a climbing yellow-green vine in the legume family Fabaceae, that grows from a stout, potato-like tuber. It is native to the United States in the states of Alabama and Mississippi to Kentucky. It is listed as an endangered species. (references) | ||
| Apios tuberosa | A North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Genus Apios | Twining perennial North American plants. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
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| Apios americana | 6 | Apios americana | 6 | |
| Apios priceana | 5 | Apios priceana | 5 | |
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