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potato

[puh-tey-toh, -tuh]

noun

plural

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

  2. the plant itself.

  3. sweet potato.



potato

/ əˈٱɪəʊ /

noun

  1. Also called: Irish potato. white 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. slanga delicate or awkward matter

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of potato1

First recorded in 1545–55; from Spanish patata “potato,” variant of batata “sweet potato,” from Taíno
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Word 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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Slices of homemade zucchini frittata were eaten with roasted potatoes and a mixed greens salad.

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Surely Lee, who had previously described himself as a “meat and potatoes” guy, liked Kobe beef?

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Von Scherler Mayer reveres Mary’s youth and vitality while celebrating what would be the dying gasp of an era, telegraphing the ways of Mary’s life to even the most oblivious couch potato.

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And although you can find a pastry-encrusted snack of meat, potato and vegetables almost anywhere these days, a true Cornish Pasty must originate from Cornwall.

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The family shops at multiple stores each week to get the best free-from options, cooks adaptable meals like jacket potatoes and pasta, and makes cakes and cookies from scratch.

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Plural word forpotato

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.

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