potatoes

Variant of potato

noun pl. potatoes

  1. sweet potato
    1. 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
    2. this plant

Origin: Sp patata, var. of batata, sweet potato < Taino name

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