sweet potato
a plant, Ipomoea batatas, of the morning glory family, grown for its sweet, edible, tuberous roots.
the root itself, used as a vegetable.
Informal. ocarina.
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How to use sweet potato in a sentence
The sweet potato takes particularly well to this double-cooking method.
It starts with a simply baked sweet potato in its naturally creamy, brilliant-orange glory, split open and scored to help it embrace the layers of goodies to come.
Chili-tinged sweet potatoes are loaded in all the right ways - flavor, nutrition and satisfaction | Ellie Krieger | February 11, 2021 | Washington PostFor another man another year, I cooked an entire meal revolving around sweet potatoes, a nod to our first date, when we’d sat in a dimly lit wine bar laughing about how much we both loved them.
“Apparently, in order to eat sweet potato we need to stand in it,” Dearie said.
Baby panda makes debut — online — at National Zoo | Dana Hedgpeth, Justin Wm. Moyer | January 27, 2021 | Washington PostTo make the sweet potatoes, preheat the oven to 425 degrees.
When was the last time you heard of someone with a sweet potato, broccoli, or blueberry intolerance?
That's a big basket of sweet potato chips you're looking at.
The sweet potato fries (actually roasted) and eggplant pizza were perfectly prepared.
The net result was about four pounds of sweet potato chips in barely more than the time it took to heat the oil.
Here Mata did the family washing; dried daikon in winter, and sweet-potato slices in the summer sun.
The Dragon Painter | Mary McNeil FenollosaTwisting the precious necks of half a dozen, we left them to die in the grass while we pierced the side of a sweet-potato mound.
The boiled sweet potato is, however, a most excellent article.
Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages | William Andrus AlcottThe asparagus or sweet potato stem occasionally broadens out into a ribbon, and it passes as an abnormity.
Melt fat in a frying pan, add the halves of sweet potato, and fry until slightly brown.
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British Dictionary definitions for sweet potato
a convolvulaceous twining plant, Ipomoea batatas, of tropical America, cultivated in the tropics for its edible fleshy yellow root
the root of this plant
- Also called (NZ): kumara
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