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Yukon Gold

American  
[yoo-kon gohld] / ˈju kɒn ˈgoʊld /
Or Yukon gold

noun

  1. a yellow-fleshed, all-purpose variety of potato.


Yukon Gold British  

noun

  1. a variety of yellow-fleshed potato developed in Canada

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of Yukon Gold

First recorded in 1965–70; developed by Canadian agricultural researcher Garnet Johnston (1916–2000) at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada

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To make it a complete one-pan meal, we add Yukon Gold potatoes.

From Washington Times Mar. 28, 2023

To give the green garlic a space to shine, I picked up a few pounds of yellow-fleshed Yukon Gold spuds from my favorite potato vendor.

From New York Times Apr. 8, 2022

Make one of them whipped, skin-on Yukon Gold potatoes.

From Washington Post Nov. 26, 2018

The economic crash of 1893 slowed the growth, but beginning in 1897, inhibitions were effectively scattered by the Yukon Gold Rush.

From Seattle Times Oct. 5, 2017

So I became a member of the Yukon Gold Expedition, under the management of John Herrick and Julius Dwight, engineers.

From The Blue Birds' Winter Nest by Lillian Elizabeth Roy

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