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potato

[ puh-tey-toh, -tuh ]

noun

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


potato

/ pəˈteɪtəʊ /

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
“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

Additionally, it can be found in beans, artichokes, and sweet potatoes, and in fermented foods such as sourdough bread, as well as miso, kimchi, and sauerkraut.

Aunt Petunia’s secret ingredient, in addition to the potatoes, oil, salt and onions, is love.

The Swedish checklist recommends potatoes, cabbage, carrots and eggs along with tins of bolognese sauce and prepared blueberry and rosehip soup.

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In states with abortion bans, such patients are sometimes bounced between hospitals like “hot potatoes,” with health care providers reluctant to participate in treatment that could attract a prosecutor, doctors told ProPublica.

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There were sweets and potato chips, a treat that had been stored away.

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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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