potato
- noun
- /pəˈteɪtoʊ/
- She mashed the boiled potatoes and added butter for a creamy texture.
- potato chips
- meat and potatoes
- sweet potatoes
So that's like bread, pasta, rice, potatoes, and sweet foods.
- So that's like bread, pasta, rice, potatoes, and sweet foods.
- So we're going with slightly larger potatoes than normal.
- In the right hands, a potato is better than a truffle.
- We always used to have cold potatoes and a salad, right?
- Chop the carrots, then peel the potatoes, mix the icing.
- It was their second course was potatoes of sort.
- You know, onion rings, loaded potato skins, carrot cake.
- There's like potato balls, chicken, potato balls, meat pies.
- How you like to enjoy a potato, are you?
- And then we'll have potatoes hopefully in this area.
Examples
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I love salty potato-based treats and I will not apologize for that.
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And I would like a spicy potato soft Taco from Taco Bell.
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So we're going with slightly larger potatoes than normal.
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You ever leave a potato on your shelf?
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Most children attempted to read the potato chip bag, even if they could not read anything else.
Academic text (1999) -
I think I have the potato vegetable with beef.
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OK, so now the choice between steak and potatoes, OK?
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And then I had a mountain of mashed potatoes... and I went back for ice cream three times.
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So just as an example, you could boil potatoes, you could bake potatoes.
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I want a rib eye steak with mashed potatoes and a large green salad.
Synonyms
A plant or plant part eaten as food, usually not sweet
A potato that people cook and eat
A thick underground stem that stores food and grows new shoots, like a potato
A potato often eaten cooked or fried
A vegetable that grows under the ground like a carrot or potato
A common root vegetable with pale skin and white flesh used for cooking
A common white potato grown and eaten in Ireland and other countries
A name for a potato used in some parts of Ireland and Britain
A plant that grows edible parts under the ground called potatoes
A type of potato from Uruguay grown for eating
Idioms
Compounds
- US
A crisp shell of potato peel fried or baked and topped with melted cheese and bacon
A black-and-yellow beetle that eats potato leaves when young and as an adult
- Indian
A climbing tropical vine with large edible round tubers that grow above ground
A South American bush or small tree with purple flowers that is not a true potato
A vine from Costa Rica with large purple-blue flowers and hook-shaped spines
- US
A tropical climbing plant from the Amazon with large edible roots that people cook and eat
- Archaic
A climbing plant from North America with edible underground roots that Native Americans used as food
- Specialized
A disease caused by a virus that makes potato leaves show pale and dark patches
- Specialized
A group of flowering plants that includes tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, and eggplants
- Specialized
A small grey-brown insect whose caterpillars eat and damage potato crops
- Specialized
A small caterpillar that eats and makes tunnels in potato stems and leaves
- Specialized
A large green caterpillar with white stripes that eats potato and tomato leaves
- Specialized
Leftover potato material after removing starch that farmers feed to animals
A South American shrub not related to the edible potato that people grow for pretty purple flowers
- Specialized
A disease of potato plants that makes leaves yellow and plants small
- Specialized
A germ that makes potato plants small and their leaves turn yellow
- Specialized
A small insect that attacks sweet potatoes and other crops and spreads plant viruses
- Philippine
A plant with a very strong smell grown in Southeast Asia for its edible root like a potato
A plant that grows edible potatoes underground and has poisonous climbing stems
- US
A plant that grows every year in dry parts of southwestern US and Mexico and has small tubers like potatoes
A tropical plant that grows along the ground or climbs and has a large root people eat
A climbing tropical plant with a large root used for food and related to the sweet potato
- Specialized
A disease of potato plants that makes leaves turn yellow and plants grow poorly
How Starchy
Surface Forms
Etymology
Potato comes from the Spanish patata, which likely mixed the South American word papa for the native potato and the Caribbean word batata for the 'sweet potato'. So the name came to English with the food, which is why potato means the starchy tuber we eat.