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potato
[puh-tey-toh, -tuh]
noun
plural
potatoesAlso called white potato.Also called Irish potato,.the edible tuber of a cultivated plant, Solanum tuberosum, of the nightshade family.
the plant itself.
potato
/ əˈٱɪəʊ /
noun
Also called: Irish potato. white 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
slanga delicate or awkward matter
Word History and Origins
Origin of potato1
Word History and Origins
Origin of potato1
Idioms and Phrases
Example Sentences
Slices of homemade zucchini frittata were eaten with roasted potatoes and a mixed greens salad.
Surely Lee, who had previously described himself as a “meat and potatoes” guy, liked Kobe beef?
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.
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.
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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When To Use
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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