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Wild bean   /waɪld bin/   Listen
Wild bean

noun
1.
A North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans.  Synonyms: Apios americana, Apios tuberosa, groundnut, groundnut vine, Indian potato, potato bean.
2.
Nutlike tuber; important food of Native Americans.  Synonyms: groundnut, potato bean.





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"Wild bean" Quotes from Famous Books



... much to secure a variety of appetizing dishes; she even robbed the field mouse and the muskrat to accomplish her end. The tiny mouse gathers for her winter use several excellent kinds of food. Among these is a wild bean which equals in flavor any domestic bean that I have ever tasted. Her storehouse is usually under a peculiar mound, which the untrained eye would be unable to distinguish from an ant-hill. There are many pockets underneath, into which she industriously gathers ...
— Indian Boyhood • [AKA Ohiyesa], Charles A. Eastman


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