Potato Definition

pə-tātō
potatoes
noun
potatoes
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.
Webster's New World
This plant.
Webster's New World

Sweet potato.

Webster's New World
Any of various wild plants in the genus Solanum that are similar to the cultivated potato.
American Heritage

(informal, UK) A conspicuous hole in a sock or stocking.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
white potato vinesolanum-tuberosumwhite potatotaterspudmurphyirish potatoplantyamvegetabletuberrhizomesweet-potato
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Other Word Forms of Potato

Noun

Singular:
potato
Plural:
potatoes

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.

  • 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.

  • Flax is almost of as much importance as wheat, and the potato is more cultivated than in any other part of Russia.

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