white potato
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- noun
- /ˈwaɪt pəˈteɪtoʊ/
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- You can use white potatoes to make creamy mashed potatoes that everyone loves.
- mashed white potatoes
- white potatoes, peeled
- white potatoes, peeled and cut
Flour, rice, bread, pasta, white potatoes, sweet potatoes are fine.
- Flour, rice, bread, pasta, white potatoes, sweet potatoes are fine.
Examples
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Sweet potatoes are more digestible than white potatoes; most kids love them—cut them like chunky fries and roast them in hot coconut oil.
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I know I'm OCD, but I've got like a purple potato peeler, a white potato peeler, yes, no.
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Flour, rice, bread, pasta, white potatoes, sweet potatoes are fine.
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After all, we know white potatoes turn quickly into sugar in the bloodstream, so sweet potatoes surely are worse.
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The GI of a white potato is 69.
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Way tastier than store-bought white potato chips.
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Everyone else gets some white potato but I don't like potato that's hot.
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Unlike in previous years, recipes for sweet potato dishes outnumber those for white potatoes.
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Broccoli, green and red peppers, spinach, cabbage, sweet and white potatoes also have good amounts of vitamin C.
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Going paleo helped keep my appetite in check, but my kids stayed pretty hungry until we added non-"paleo" carbs like white rice and white potatoes (a la Paul Jaminet's "safe starches").
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Synonyms
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A starchy vegetable that people eat, often boiled or mashed
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A potato that people cook and eat
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A potato often eaten cooked or fried
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A common white potato grown and eaten in Ireland and other countries
A plant that grows edible parts under the ground called potatoes
A name for a potato used in some parts of Ireland and Britain
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Morphology
The meaning 'a potato with white flesh or pale skin' is directly and transparently derived from combining the adjective 'white' with the noun 'potato'. This regular adjective–noun composition follows standard English modification patterns and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily understand it.
Etymology
The name white potato comes from farmers and cooks who used color to tell types apart: these potatoes have pale skin and white flesh. That's why the name now means a common potato used as a 'staple food'.