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Wild potato

noun

Erect or spreading perennial of southwestern United States and Mexico bearing small pale brown to cream-colored tubers resembling potatoes. Synonym: Solanum jamesii.

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... a wild potato, it resembles the sweet potato in top and taste. It grows in bottom-lands, and is much prized by the Dakotas for food. The "Dakota Friend," ...

— Legends of the Northwest • Hanford Lennox Gordon

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... greatly to modify many vegetable productions. Witness the comparatively recent changes in the potato plant. The small, almost worthless tubers of the wild potato have changed, under the force of intelligent cultivation, to the large, starchy, nutritious vegetables, which furnish so many people a large portion of their food. Mind has been at work; mind and nature ...

— Evolution - An Investigation and a Critique • Theodore Graebner

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Words linked to "Wild potato" : vine, Solanum, genus Solanum