potato
- noun
- /pəˈteɪtoʊ/
- She mashed the potato with butter and served it alongside the main dish.
- potato plants
- potato crop
- potato cultivation
That way I can get more fertile soil for my potatoes.
- That way I can get more fertile soil for my potatoes.
- I looked at four different domesticated plants, tulips, potatoes, cannabis and apples.
- But here we're talking about one molecule, nicotine found in plants like tomatoes and potatoes and the tobacco plant.
Examples
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Sayed, whose family farms potatoes and wheat, plans to use the funds to purchase a cow and her calf.
Academic text (2011) -
In the West, where the potato was a staple crop, many people died from starvation.
Academic text (1992) -
Oh, that is an amazing potato harvest right there.
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Let's plant potatoes in there.
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Hey, I love the spice on these potatoes.
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There were no tomatoes, potatoes, or maize in Europe before the discovery of the New World.
Academic text (2008) -
The others are busy harvesting potato crops, tending small shops, or going to classes.
Academic text (2011) -
From their plates, they fed bits of corned beef and potato salad to the toddlers.
Fiction book (1991) -
For dinner, we are having baked potato topped with sour cream and chives.
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The farmer showed me his best crop of potato during the tour of his fields.
Synonyms
A potato that people cook and eat
A plant that grows edible parts under the ground called potatoes
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
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Etymology
Potato comes from the Spanish patata, probably a mix of the South American word papa for the plant and the Caribbean word batata for the 'sweet potato'. That's why potato now names the plant that is grown for its starchy tubers.