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potato
[ puh-tey-toh, -tuh ]
noun
- Also called Irish potato, the edible tuber of a cultivated plant, Solanum tuberosum, of the nightshade family.
- the plant itself.
potato
/ əˈٱɪəʊ /
noun
- Also calledIrish potatowhite potato
- a solanaceous plant, Solanum tuberosum, of South America: widely cultivated for its edible tubers
- the starchy oval tuber of this plant, which has a brown or red skin and is cooked and eaten as a vegetable
- any of various similar plants, esp the sweet potato
- hot potato slang.a delicate or awkward matter
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of potato1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of potato1
Idioms and Phrases
see hot potato ; meat and potatoes ; small beer (potatoes) .Example Sentences
"It's like many, many thousands of rotating, glinting ruffled potato chips."
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.
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.
The movie starts in fictional Chuglass, Idaho, the “potato chip capital of America,” where a giant tuber mascot looms over the town.
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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