groundnut

Noun
  1. A North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers;
    Important food crop of Native Americans (synset 112527884)
    is a type of: vine - a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface
    belongs to: apios, genus apios - twining perennial North American plants
    has: groundnut, potato bean, wild bean - nutlike tuber; important food of Native Americans
    same as: apios americana, apios tuberosa, groundnut vine, indian potato, potato bean, wild bean
  2. Nutlike tuber;
    Important food of Native Americans (synset 107790008)
    is a type of: tuber - a fleshy underground stem or root serving for reproductive and food storage
    is a part of: apios americana, apios tuberosa, groundnut, groundnut vine, indian potato, potato bean, wild bean - a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans
    same as: potato bean, wild bean
  3. Pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds;
    `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms (synset 107753721)
    is a type of: edible nut - a hard-shelled seed consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell
    is a part of: arachis hypogaea, peanut, peanut vine - widely cultivated American plant cultivated in tropical and warm regions; showy yellow flowers on stalks that bend over to the soil so that seed pods ripen underground
    same as: earthnut, goober, goober pea, monkey nut, peanut

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