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potatoes
Variant of potato
noun pl. potatoes
- 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
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