Yukon Gold

American  

[yoo-kon gohld] / ˈyu 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

---

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

Example Sentences

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

From Washington Times • Mar. 28, 2023

If you’re making it with potatoes, Yukon Gold are good, but really, any kind is fine.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 27, 2018

They called it Tabard Farm Potato Chips — Route 11 still sells them when Yukon Gold potatoes are in season — and a little sideline business was born.

From Washington Post • Mar. 21, 2014

You Say Potato, I Say Double-Stranded RNA Tiffany Stecker writes about climate change, agriculture and forestry for ClimateWire in Washington, DC and prefers red potatoes to Yukon Gold.

From Scientific American • Jun. 12, 2013

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 Roy, Lillian Elizabeth