BOMAREA EDULIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bomarea edulis mean? 

• BOMAREA EDULIS (noun)
  The noun BOMAREA EDULIS has 1 sense:

1. tropical vine having pink-and-yellow flowers spotted purple and edible roots sometimes boiled as a potato substitute; West Indies to northern South America

  Familiarity information: BOMAREA EDULIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOMAREA EDULIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tropical vine having pink-and-yellow flowers spotted purple and edible roots sometimes boiled as a potato substitute; West Indies to northern South America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Bomarea edulis; salsilla

Hypernyms ("Bomarea edulis" is a kind of...):

vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)

Holonyms ("Bomarea edulis" is a member of...):

Bomarea; genus Bomarea (large genus of tropical American vines having showy often spotted umbellate flowers; sometimes placed in family Liliaceae especially subfamily Alstroemeriaceae)