wild potato

noun

1. a plant, Solanum jamesii, of the southwestern U.S., related to the edible cultivated potato.
2. man-of-the-earth.

Word History and Origins

Origin of wild potato¹

An Americanism dating back to 1765–75

Example Sentences

Even the wild potato found in the Yellowstone Country is thought one of the best of edible wild roots.

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The wild potato strongly resembles the species now in use in Europe, but the stem and leaf are essentially different.

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The wild potato grows on these islands in great abundance, on the sandy, shelly soil near the sea-beach.

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Mr. Reed told the children about the wild potato, which belongs to South America.

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The Abnaki name of the wild potato or ground-nut was pen, pl.

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