| 单词 | potato bean |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspotato bean potato bean n. †(a) a bean-shaped tuberous excrescence at the base of a potato stem (obsolete rare); (b) the groundnut, Apios americana. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > potato > excrescence, bud, or fruit eye?1440 potato apple1663 potato eye1733 eyehole1782 potato bean1805 potato ball1817 seed ball1821 1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 628 The dark brown-coloured excrescence that grows to the size of a large horse-bean on the haulm or straw of the potatoe..termed in some places the potatoe bean. 1979 Garden (Victoria & Albert Mus.) 89/2 The American potato-bean from Virginia. 2000 Nature Conservancy Sept. 35/3 The preserve is situated on a calcareous bluff forest that harbors the world's largest-known population of..Apios priceana, or Price's potato-bean. < as lemmas |
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