sweet potato
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- noun
- /ˈswit pəˌteɪtoʊ/
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batata
- Vegetable chips, such as sweet potato, are now available next to regular potato chips.
- cassava and sweet potatoes
- sweet potatoes and manioc
- sweet potatoes and beans
And these are the crunchiest, most delectable sweet potato fries I've ever had.
- And these are the crunchiest, most delectable sweet potato fries I've ever had.
- Meat, vegetables, rice, sweet potatoes, beans and berries.
- Maybe it would be waffles, maybe pancakes, maybe sweet potato, marshmallow.
- Or you could do like fried chicken, greens, macaroni, sweet potatoes, cornbread, collard greens.
- But meat, vegetables, fruit, things like sweet potatoes, rice, beans.
Examples
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I made sweet potato fries in the air fryer for Dayton.
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How about some sweet potato pie?
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- Bring me back a sweet potato pie.
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Here are the sweet potatoes, two different varieties.
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- There was some sweet potato pie on the plate, too.
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I made Jason a sweet potato pie.
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I'm going to fix you some sweet potato pie this weekend.
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Honey, for dessert, try some of my homemade sweet potato pie.
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Tonight for dinner we're having salmon with sweet potato fries and peas.
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Tonight for dinner we're having salmon with sweet potatoes fries and peas.
Synonyms
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A plant grown for its sweet edible roots called sweet potatoes
A tropical plant with a large sweet orange root called the sweet potato that people eat
A trailing plant grown for its large sweet roots eaten as food
How Sweet
Surface Forms
Morphology
The constituent words 'sweet' (having sugary taste) and 'potato' (a starchy tuber) point to a food item, so a B1 learner would naturally expect a vegetable. The given sense — an ocarina-like terracotta wind instrument nicknamed for its shape — is a metaphorical, culture-specific name that cannot be derived from the literal meanings of the parts, making it unpredictable for learners.
Etymology
Sweet potato The name sweet potato comes from a simple picture: early cooks and explorers found a starchy root that tasted sweet and looked like a potato, so they put sweet and potato together. So, the name today still means the sweet, starchy vegetable.