Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun sweet_potato

3 senses of sweet potato

Sense 1
sweet potato, sweet potato vine, Ipomoea batatas -- (pantropical vine widely cultivated in several varieties for its large sweet tuberous root with orange flesh)
       => morning glory -- (any of various twining vines having funnel-shaped flowers that close late in the day)

Sense 2
sweet potato -- (the edible tuberous root of the sweet potato vine which is grown widely in warm regions of the United States)
       => root vegetable -- (any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers)

Sense 3
ocarina, sweet potato -- (egg-shaped terra cotta wind instrument with a mouthpiece and finger holes)
       => wind instrument, wind -- (a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath)