Uruguay potato vine
- noun
- Specialized
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planta de papa uruguaya
- Gardeners prize the Uruguay potato vine for its attractive blossoms and edible tubers.
Examples
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The Uruguay potato vine thrives in warm, sunny climates with well-drained soil.
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Several varieties of Uruguay potato vine are grown for both ornamental and culinary uses.
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The Uruguay potato vine thrives in warm climates.
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Have you seen the Uruguay potato vine in the garden?
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Gardeners prize the Uruguay potato vine for its attractive blossoms and edible tubers.
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Several varieties of Uruguay potato vine are grown for both ornamental and culinary uses.
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The Uruguay potato vine thrives in warm, sunny climates with well-drained soil.
Synonyms
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A plant grown for its edible underground parts that people eat while its leaves are poisonous
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4.3
A climbing plant with light-blue flowers used to decorate walls and fences
A type of potato from Uruguay grown for eating
A plant that grows edible potatoes underground and has poisonous climbing stems
A plant that grows edible parts under the ground called potatoes
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is fully compositional: 'Uruguay' specifies origin, 'potato' names the crop, and 'vine' names the plant habit, so a learner who knows those words can infer it is a potato-producing vine from Uruguay. There is no idiomatic or metaphorical shift and the noun-modifier pattern is cross-linguistically common, making the meaning immediately recoverable for a B1 learner.
Etymology
Uruguay potato vine gets its name from three simple ideas: Uruguay (the country where the plant grows), potato (because it makes edible, potato-like tubers), and vine (because it climbs or spreads along the ground). So the name means 'a climbing plant from Uruguay with potato-like tubers'.