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potato

[ puh-tey-toh, -tuh ]

noun

plural potatoes.
  1. Also called Irish potato, the edible tuber of a cultivated plant, Solanum tuberosum, of the nightshade family.
  2. the plant itself.


potato

/ əˈٱɪəʊ /

noun

  1. Also calledIrish potatowhite potato
    1. a solanaceous plant, Solanum tuberosum, of South America: widely cultivated for its edible tubers
    2. the starchy oval tuber of this plant, which has a brown or red skin and is cooked and eaten as a vegetable
  2. any of various similar plants, esp the sweet potato
  3. hot potato slang.
    a delicate or awkward matter
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of potato1

First recorded in 1545–55; from Spanish patata “potato,” variant of batata “sweet potato,” from ղíԴ
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of potato1

C16: from Spanish patata white potato, from Taino batata sweet potato
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Idioms and Phrases

see hot potato ; meat and potatoes ; small beer (potatoes) .
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Example Sentences

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"It's like many, many thousands of rotating, glinting ruffled potato chips."

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Prices paid to UK farmers for potatoes were also up last year according to figures from the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs' Agricultural Price Index.

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Two days into his campaign, Carney posted a video encouraging his countrymen to "buy Canadian wherever you can" as he examined locally-made maple syrup, potatoes and jam during a visit to a farm market.

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The movie starts in fictional Chuglass, Idaho, the “potato chip capital of America,” where a giant tuber mascot looms over the town.

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That includes everything and anything from your typical charcuterie boards to more creative mini meal boards — like a baked potato board or a buffalo wing board complete with chicken wings and crudités.

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What Is The Plural Of Potato?

Plural word for potato

The plural form of potato is potatoes. The plurals of several other singular words that end in -o are also formed this way, including tomato/tomatoes and echo/echoes.

In some cases, the plurals of words that end in -o that are adopted from another language can be formed by adding either -es or -s, as in mosquito/mosquitoes/mosquitos or mango/mangoes/mangos. However, this is not the case with potato/potatoes. Potatos is an invalid spelling of the plural of potato.

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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