| potato vine | (n) vine of Costa Rica sparsely armed with hooklike spines and having large lilac-blue flowers, Syn. giant potato creeper, Solanum wendlandii |
| potato vine | (n) copiously branched vine of Brazil having deciduous leaves and white flowers tinged with blue, Syn. Solanum jasmoides |
| wild potato vine | (n) tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root; sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato, Syn. manroot, scammonyroot, wild sweet potato vine, Ipomoea panurata, man-of-the-earth, Ipomoea fastigiata |
| potato | (n) annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers; widely cultivated as a garden vegetable; vines are poisonous, Syn. white potato vine, white potato, Solanum tuberosum |
| sweet potato | (n) pantropical vine widely cultivated in several varieties for its large sweet tuberous root with orange flesh, Syn. sweet potato vine, Ipomoea batatas |
| uruguay potato | (n) South American potato vine, Syn. Uruguay potato vine, Solanum commersonii |