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Indian potato † 
any of several tubers used as food, especially by the Indians, as the wapatoo.
See also: wapatoo
- 1843 (1868) [Game was scanty, and they had to eke out their scanty fare with wild roots and vegetables, such as the Indian potato, the wild onion, and the prairie tomato.]
- 1912 (1913) Indian potato. (1) The groundnut (Apios apios). (2) A western name for the squirrel corn (Bikukulla canadensis).
- 1927 She taught them to distinguish the small, pinkish-white flower of the Indian potato, whose root, when eaten raw, is somewhat the flavour of a chestnut, and is highly prized by the natives for its food value.
- 1947 There had been but little else discussed when the Cowichans met that autumn on the Saan-a-sant (Pitt) River where the Katzies were hosts each year during the digging of Indian potatoes, amid great festivity.
- 1843 (1868) [Game was scanty, and they had to eke out their scanty fare with wild roots and vegetables, such as the Indian potato, the wild onion, and the prairie tomato.]