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Indian +‎ potato

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Indian potato (plural Indian potatoes)

  1. Any of several kinds of North American plants with edible, starchy bulbs or other underground structures, such as mariposa lilies, groundnuts, etc., especially
    1. Apios americana (American potato-bean), a terrestrial plant native to eastern North America;
    2. Orogenia spp. (now in Lomatium), a terrestrial plant native to western North America;
    3. Sagittaria latifolia (broadleaf arrowhead, duck potato), an aquatic plant native to North and South America.

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