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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

The same court had already reversed a similar tax decision of hers, regarding Starbucks’ treatment by Dutch tax authorities, on similar grounds—but that was small potatoes compared with the flagship Apple-Ireland case.

From Fortune

He relays the story of her weekend diet consisting of “baked potatoes and caviar,” at once down-home and sophisticated.

Cover and repeat with remaining dough, potato, bacon, cheese, scallions, and 1 tablespoon sesame oil.

From Eater

Picture a big russet potato next to a small fingerling potato, both grown in the same soil and containing the same total amount of iron.

For instance, a 50-year-old ultramarathoner might have a younger biological age than a 35-year-old couch potato.

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Most of the vendors were, like this woman, honorary Jews for the night, not that Jews have a monopoly on potato pancakes.

Esther Choi of Mokbar said she has made Korean potato pancakes called gam ja jun, and Charles Rodriguez of PRINT.

She came to the Latke Festival because she loved any dish so based around the potato.

“I think as the ubiquity of French fries prove, everyone loves a crispy fried potato,” he said in an email.

More clumsily, fireworks stand in for the Big Bang and a potato and peas are invoked to explain relativity.

The Potato is planted very sparingly south of Piedmont, and not so commonly there as in Savoy.

Wheat gives place to Rye about the same time, and the Potato, at first comparatively rare, becomes universal.

The boy backed away from him, and stood a little distance off, holding out a nice, juicy potato this time.

His steps led him now not to the beach, but to the Cemetery of Rocklington, amid the potato-fields.

All at once there came running through the potato field a black and white dog.

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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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