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manroot

manroot noun: a flowering plant in the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae), genus Marah, native to western North America.

manroot: a flowering plant in the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae), genus Marah, native to western North America
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Noun

manroot (countable and uncountable, plural manroots)

  1. A flowering plant in the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae), genus Marah, native to western North America.
    Synonyms:
    wild cucumber, cucumber gourd
  2. Ipomoea leptophylla.
    Synonyms:
    bush moonflower, man-of-the-earth
  3. Ipomoea pandurata.
    Synonyms:
    bigroot morning-glory, man-of-the-earth, wild potato-vine, wild sweet-potato-vine

Synonyms of manroot

All synonyms of manroot

Forms of manroot

pluralmanroots

Origin of manroot

From man + root.

Questions about manroot

What does manroot mean?
Manroot means a flowering plant in the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae), genus Marah, native to western North America.
What part of speech is manroot?
Manroot is a noun.
What is the plural of manroot?
The plural of manroot is manroots.

Words near manroot in the dictionary

  1. Manrings
  2. Manrique
  3. Manriques
  4. Manriquez
  5. Manriquezes
  6. manroot
  7. manroots
  8. manrope
  9. manropes
  10. Manry
  11. Manrys

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