potato bean

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Origin of potato bean

First recorded in 1795–1805

Words nearby potato bean

potassium sulphate, potassium thiocyanate, potation, potato, potato apple, potato bean, potato beetle, potato blight, potatobug, potato chip, potato crisp

How to use potato bean in a sentence

Most of the vendors were, like this woman, honorary Jews for the night, not that Jews have a monopoly on potato pancakes.
I Ate Potato Pancakes Til I Plotzed|Emily Shire|December 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Esther Choi of Mokbar said she has made Korean potato pancakes called gam ja jun, and Charles Rodriguez of PRINT.
I Ate Potato Pancakes Til I Plotzed|Emily Shire|December 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
She came to the Latke Festival because she loved any dish so based around the potato.
I Ate Potato Pancakes Til I Plotzed|Emily Shire|December 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“I think as the ubiquity of French fries prove, everyone loves a crispy fried potato,” he said in an email.
I Ate Potato Pancakes Til I Plotzed|Emily Shire|December 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST

More clumsily, fireworks stand in for the Big Bang and a potato and peas are invoked to explain relativity.
Why Can’t Movies Capture Genius?|Clive Irving|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The Potato is planted very sparingly south of Piedmont, and not so commonly there as in Savoy.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
Wheat gives place to Rye about the same time, and the Potato, at first comparatively rare, becomes universal.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
The boy backed away from him, and stood a little distance off, holding out a nice, juicy potato this time.
Squinty the Comical Pig|Richard Barnum
His 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 Kipling
All at once there came running through the potato field a black and white dog.
Squinty the Comical Pig|Richard Barnum