Irish potato
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- noun
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patata irlandesa
- They got them Irish potatoes off Ed Watson.
- Irish potato famine
Examples
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They had two plantations and a lot of fruit trees, grew cabbages, onions, pumpkins, melons, sweet potatoes, and Irish potatoes, too.
Fiction book (1990) -
She told us about how he worked at the Big Mill in Bolton, and how as a girl she had to take him his dinner of fatback, Irish potatoes, and cornbread with green onions.
Fiction book (1993) -
I hope Jason offers sweet potatoes too, not just Irish potatoes.
Blog text (31) -
At Widow Gaffney's cabin, she found the old woman hoeing her Irish potatoes.
Fiction book (1991) -
Harry's father, Andrew, would tell him to order anything he wanted from the menu: steak and Irish potatoes, chicken and dumplings, hot apple pie.
Fiction book (1996) -
She tended a small garden in the backyard, worked it when she got home from the shoe factory: a few rows of snap beans, Irish potatoes, Big Boy tomatoes, turnip greens, and okra.
Fiction book (1996) -
At Widow Gaffney's cabin, she found the old woman hoeing her Irish potatoes.
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Harry's father, Andrew, would tell him to order anything he wanted from the menu: steak and Irish potatoes, chicken and dumplings, hot apple pie.
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White potatoes were known as Irish potatoes.
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 root vegetable with pale skin and white flesh used for cooking
A name for a potato used in some parts of Ireland and Britain
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward adjective + noun composition: 'Irish' (pertaining to Ireland) + 'potato' (starchy tuber) yields 'a potato from Ireland' or a variety associated with Ireland. This origin-based modifier pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows regular English composition, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Irish potato comes from the simple idea of Irish, meaning from Ireland, and potato, the vegetable. This white potato grew very well in Ireland and became a 'main food' for many people, so the name means a common potato grown or eaten in Ireland.