potato

po·ta·to

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A pile of potatoes.

noun

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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potato

noun

pl. -·toes

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; the common white potato
2. this plant

Origin of potato

Spanish patata, variant, variety of batata, sweet potato from Taino name

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potato

noun

pl. po·ta·toes

a. 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.
b. A tuber of this plant.
Any of various wild plants in the genus Solanum that are similar to the cultivated potato.
A sweet potato. tater

Origin of potato

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

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Noun

(plural potatoes)

A plant tuber, Solanum tuberosum, eaten as a starchy vegetable, particularly in the Americas and Europe
(informal, UK) A conspicuous hole in a sock or stocking

Origin

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

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potato - Computer Definition

"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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