potato
po·tato (pə tāt′ō, -tāt′ə)
noun pl. -·toes
- sweet potato
- the starchy, brown-skinned or red-skinned tuber of a widely cultivated plant (Solanum tuberosum) of the nightshade family, eaten as a cooked vegetable; Irish potato; white potato
- this plant
Etymology: Sp patata, var. of batata, sweet potato < Taino name
potato
n.
Varieties of potatoes include: Irish Cobbler, Early Ohio, Green Mountain, Rural, Burbank, Epicure, Great Scot, Kerr's Pink, Yukon Gold, Yellow Finn, Kennebec, King Edward VII, Arran Chief, Bliss Triumph, Idaho Russet, red, white, new.
Converse of object
- mash: Serve with creamy mashed potatoes, broad beans or French beans.
- bake: Tips to increase starchy foods include: For most meals, include generous portions of rice, pasta, baked potatoes, or bread.
- boil: Meanwhile boil enough potatoes to cover the top of the stew in mashed potato made with butter.
- peel: First of all, peel the potatoes for the mash and put on to to boil.
Adjective modifier
- sweet: Pour oil over sweet potatoes; toss to coat.
- fried: I highly recommend you find a snack wagon and try their " Rosti " , a fried potato and onion fritter.
- transgenic: Comparison of virulent strains of G. pallida on Sante and transgenic potatoes 4.4.
- sauteed: Served with sautéed potatoes or rice & seasonal vegetables.
Modifies a noun
- tuber: Food: Other insects, plant roots, decaying vegetation, and potato tubers.
- blight: Orla has become a more popular variety on organic farms in recent years due its great taste combined with its resistance to potato blight.
- peeler: A favorite of mine is courgettes sliced lengthways into ribbons using a potato peeler, fried briefly and tossed among couscous.
- famine: The crisis was triggered by the Irish potato famine.
- masher: Stir in the chili sauce and half the baked beans, mash with a fork or potato masher.
- dextrose: Necrotic tissue fragments taken from diseased plants were surface-sterilised and plated on potato dextrose agar.
Noun used with modifier
- couch: Sky already had the football product that the majority of couch potato fans wanted to watch.
- roast: Roast Pork Lightly marinated roast, served with roast potatoes & vegetables in a wine gravy.
- jacket: Bring a jacket potato wrapped in foil to cook in a bonfire.
- maincrop: Potatoes Lift and store maincrop potatoes when the weather is dry.
- fondant: Madam continued with Roasted breast of duck with fondant potato and confit of red onion.
- dauphinoise: My duck was more traditionally presented, nestling alongside dauphinoise potatoes and caramelized chicory.
Humannature will not flourish, any morethana potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil.
Oh, poor Pearl Buck! She has no more bounce than a boiled potato.
A potato candidate.The best part of him isunderground.
You say potato and I say po-tah-to You say tomato and I say to-mah-to Let's call the whole thing off!
Browse dictionary entries near potato
- potation
- potassium sulfate
- potassium permanganate
- potassium nitrate
- potassium iodide
- potassium hydroxide
- potassium dichromate
- potassium cyanide
- potassium chloride
- potassium chlorate
- potato chip
- potbellied
- potbelly
- potboiler
- potboy
- poteen
- Potemkin
- Potemkin village
- potency
- potent
