Portuguese
amendoim A North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans.
Very tall American perennial of central and the eastern United States to Canada having edible tuberous roots.
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We're not doing a thing worse than sucking 'hunters' rock leek' or roasting Indian potatoes or fishing for trout with cactus spines.
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"Digging Indian potatoes"-( aspeciesof artichoke.)