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a vine that hides dessert underground and poison overhead.
toxic relativesits seeds and leaves contain rotenone, an insecticide
water heavyabout 90 percent water under that rugged skin
bean kinactually a legume, related to peas and beans
stays crispwon't brown or soften like cut apples do
name originfrom Nahuatl xicamatl, an Aztec word