noun
tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root; sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato
• Syn: ↑wild sweet potato vine, ↑man-of-the-earth, ↑manroot, ↑scammonyroot, ↑Ipomoea panurata, ↑Ipomoea fastigiata
• Hypernyms: ↑morning glory
Useful english dictionary. 2012.