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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root; sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato;
[syn: wild potato vine, wild sweet potato vine, man-of-the-earth, manroot, scammonyroot, Ipomoea panurata, Ipomoea fastigiata]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

man-of-the-earth \man-of-the-earth\ n. 1. (Bot.) A long-rooted morning glory (Ipomoea leptophylla) of Western U. S. Syn: man of the earth, Ipomoea leptophylla. [WordNet 1.5] 2. A tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial (Ipomoea panurata or Ipomoea fastigiata) having an enormous starchy root; sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato. Syn: wild potato vine, wild sweet potato vine, man of the earth, manroot, scammonyroot, Ipomoea panurata, Ipomoea fastigiata. [WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Ipomoea panurata n 1: tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root; sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato [syn: wild potato vine, wild sweet potato vine, man-of-the-earth, manroot, scammonyroot, Ipomoea panurata, Ipomoea fastigiata]