Potato meaning

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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 sweet potato.
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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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"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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Origin of potato

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

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Taino batata (“sweet potato"), via Spanish patata. Not from a hypothetical Nahuatl word *potatl.

    From Wiktionary

Potato Sentence Examples

  • Katie stared at the potato in her hand.

  • Carmen picked up a potato and started pealing it.

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

  • 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.

  • 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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