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seed potato

British  

noun

  1. a potato tuber used for planting

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The GB seed potato ban will also be partially revoked: trade between registered operators will be possible but not sales direct to consumers.

From BBC • Sep. 29, 2023

The seed potato ban will be revoked this autumn, as will a similar ban on so-called "high risk" trees and shrubs.

From BBC • Feb. 28, 2023

In December, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said a national survey detected no potato wart in seed potato fields not already under surveillance.

From Washington Post • Feb. 5, 2022

My cache included four bags of onion bulbs — maybe 800 in all — three pounds of a seed potato named Katahdin and another three-pound bag of French fingerling potatoes.

From Washington Post • Apr. 5, 2016

It matters not so much whether the seed potato be large or small; it must, however, come from a hill bearing a large yield of fine potatoes.

From Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition by Burkett, Charles William