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
The same court had already reversed a similar tax decision of hers, regarding Starbucks’ treatment by Dutch tax authorities, on similar grounds—but that was small potatoes compared with the flagship Apple-Ireland case.
Europe’s antitrust chief is still determined to claw that $15 billion back-tax bill out of Apple | David Meyer | September 25, 2020 | FortuneHe relays the story of her weekend diet consisting of “baked potatoes and caviar,” at once down-home and sophisticated.
At Jackie, food is a catalyst for conversation | Evan Caplan | September 24, 2020 | Washington BladeCover and repeat with remaining dough, potato, bacon, cheese, scallions, and 1 tablespoon sesame oil.
A Chewy and Crispy Korean Bing Bread Recipe That Chicago Diners Obsess Over | Patty Diez | September 24, 2020 | EaterPicture a big russet potato next to a small fingerling potato, both grown in the same soil and containing the same total amount of iron.
Junk Food Is Bad For Plants, Too - Issue 90: Something Green | Anne Biklé & David R. Montgomery | September 23, 2020 | NautilusFor instance, a 50-year-old ultramarathoner might have a younger biological age than a 35-year-old couch potato.
What’s your biological age? A new app promises to reveal it—and help you slow the aging process | Jeremy Kahn | September 17, 2020 | Fortune
Most of the vendors were, like this woman, honorary Jews for the night, not that Jews have a monopoly on potato pancakes.
Esther Choi of Mokbar said she has made Korean potato pancakes called gam ja jun, and Charles Rodriguez of PRINT.
She came to the Latke Festival because she loved any dish so based around the potato.
“I think as the ubiquity of French fries prove, everyone loves a crispy fried potato,” he said in an email.
More clumsily, fireworks stand in for the Big Bang and a potato and peas are invoked to explain relativity.
The potato is planted very sparingly south of Piedmont, and not so commonly there as in Savoy.
Glances at Europe | Horace GreeleyWheat gives place to Rye about the same time, and the potato, at first comparatively rare, becomes universal.
Glances at Europe | Horace GreeleyThe boy backed away from him, and stood a little distance off, holding out a nice, juicy potato this time.
Squinty the Comical Pig | Richard BarnumHis steps led him now not to the beach, but to the Cemetery of Rocklington, amid the potato-fields.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II | Rudyard KiplingAll at once there came running through the potato field a black and white dog.
Squinty the Comical Pig | Richard Barnum
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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