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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
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of potato1
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of potato1
Idioms and Phrases
see hot potato ; meat and potatoes ; small beer (potatoes) .Example Sentences
It was then on to Violet and Tommy's parents for a meal of chicken and potatoes for about 30 guests.
In some ways, it’s small potatoes compared to what’s happening now.
Tinned fish can be enjoyed straight out of the tin or on top of crackers, potato chips and toasted sourdough bread.
"It's like many, many thousands of rotating, glinting ruffled potato chips."
Prices paid to UK farmers for potatoes were also up last year according to figures from the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs' Agricultural Price Index.
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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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