potato
Also called Irish potato, white potato. the edible tuber of a cultivated plant, Solanum tuberosum, of the nightshade family.
the plant itself.
Origin of potato
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How to use potato in a sentence
However, that switch to potatoes occurred around the 19th Century.
Mixing meat and dairy is a kosher rule-breaker, so they switched the cheese for potatoes.
Yeonmi had been hospitalized at the time for a stomach illness, likely from her diet of rotten potatoes.
How ‘Titanic ’Helped This Brave Young Woman Escape North Korea’s Totalitarian State | Lizzie Crocker | October 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe French fries are made out of real potatoes, the burger is great and you can get it all kinds of ways, and it tastes good.
Bill Murray’s Words of Wisdom: On Comedy, the Greatness of In-N-Out, and Searching For Great Love | Marlow Stern | October 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI must have had lamb and potatoes 180 times since I have been here.
We had new potatoes for dinner, boiled with their skins on, and Liszt threw one at me, and I caught it.
Music-Study in Germany | Amy FayPotatoes also are extensively planted, and I never saw a more vigorous growth.
Glances at Europe | Horace GreeleyThey would feed him apples, potatoes and sometimes bits of cake that Bob's mother gave them.
Squinty the Comical Pig | Richard BarnumThree men were sentenced to grow potatoes at Botany Bay the rest of their lives.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham | Thomas T. Harman and Walter ShowellIn the community her father was the wealthiest man, having made his fortune in the growing of potatoes and fruit.
The Homesteader | Oscar Micheaux
British Dictionary definitions for potato
/ (pəˈteɪtəʊ) /
Also called: Irish potato, white potato
a solanaceous plant, Solanum tuberosum, of South America: widely cultivated for its edible tubers
the starchy oval tuber of this plant, which has a brown or red skin and is cooked and eaten as a vegetable
any of various similar plants, esp the sweet potato
hot potato slang a delicate or awkward matter
Origin of potato
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with potato
see hot potato; meat and potatoes; small beer (potatoes).
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