salsilla

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A name of several plants of the genus Bomarea, yielding edible tubers. B. edulis is cultivated in the West Indies, its root being eaten like the potato; it is diaphoretic and diuretic. Other species, as B. Salsilla, are natives of the Peruvian Andes, and are pretty twining plants with showy flowers.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. tropical vine having umbels of small purple flowers and edible roots sometimes boiled as a potato substitute; Colombia.
2. n. tropical vine having pink-and-yellow flowers spotted purple and edible roots sometimes boiled as a potato substitute; West Indies to northern South America