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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
Word History and Origins
Origin of potato1
Word History and Origins
Origin of potato1
Idioms and Phrases
see hot potato ; meat and potatoes ; small beer (potatoes) .Example Sentences
"We could heat beans and rice, and bring water to a boil for instant potatoes," she said.
They said Tanzanian produce, especially potatoes, were larger and of better quality.
But their fried chicken sandwich — made with crumbed chicken schnitzel, tarragon butter, lettuce and housemade pickle mayo on a steamed potato bun — is their bestseller.
Steak, mashed potatoes and deserts for astronauts could soon be grown from individual cells in space if an experiment launched into orbit today is successful.
The long-awaited Porto’s Bakery & Cafe is one step closer to serving up its pastries, cakes and famed potato balls for visitors heading to the “Happiest Place on Earth.”
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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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