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hopniss

hopniss noun: apios americana, a perennial vine that bears edible beans and large edible tubers.

Noun

hopniss

  1. Apios americana, a perennial vine that bears edible beans and large edible tubers.
    • You have to cook hopniss tubers—they are inedible and potentially toxic raw. They are great boiled, roasted, or fried.2014, Leda Meredith, Northeast Foraging: 120 Wild and Flavorful Edibles, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    potato bean, hodoimo, Indian potato, American groundnut, groundnut

Synonyms of hopniss

Origin of hopniss

Borrowed from Unami hopënis (/hopənis/ (which has now shifted to meaning "potato"), compare Munsee óhpən, ohpën (“potato”)), possibly via Colonial Swedish. Compare katniss.

Questions about hopniss

What does hopniss mean?
Hopniss means apios americana, a perennial vine that bears edible beans and large edible tubers.
What part of speech is hopniss?
Hopniss is a noun.

Words near hopniss in the dictionary

  1. hoplopleurid
  2. hoplopleurids
  3. hoplos
  4. Hopman
  5. Hopmans
  6. hopniss
  7. hopologist
  8. hopologists
  9. Hopp
  10. HOPP syndrome
  11. hoppang

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