Potato meaning

pə-tā'tō
A sweet potato.
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The definition of a potato is a starchy brown or red-skinned growth of a plant in the nightshade family.

An example of a potato is the food from which french fries are made.

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Any of various wild plants in the genus Solanum that are similar to the cultivated potato.
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A perennial plant (Solanum tuberosum) in the nightshade family that was first cultivated in South America and is widely grown for its starchy edible tubers.
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A tuber of this plant.
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The starchy, brown-skinned or red-skinned tuber of a widely cultivated plant (Solanum tuberosum) of the nightshade family, eaten as a cooked vegetable; the common white potato.
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This plant.
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"A person over thirty acting twenty-one." In other words, an older person pretending to be more "with it." See digispeak.
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A plant tuber, Solanum tuberosum, eaten as a starchy vegetable, particularly in the Americas and Europe.
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(informal, UK) A conspicuous hole in a sock or stocking.
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Origin of potato

Spanish patata alteration (probably influenced by Quechua papa white potato) of Taíno batata sweet potato

Sentence Examples

  • Katie stared at the potato in her hand.

  • Carmen picked up a potato and started pealing it.

  • The tubers of Ipomaea Batatas are rich in starch and sugar, and, as the "sweet potato," form one of the most widely distributed foods in the warmer parts of the earth.

  • A reas of Cereal and Potato Crops in England, Wales and Scotland, and in Great Britain, in 1905.

  • The figures are those for 1905, but, though the absolute acreages Table -Areas of Cereal and Potato Crops in Great Britain and Ireland in 1905.

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