Potato - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |pəˈteɪtəʊ|  American pronunciation of the word potato
Brit.  |pəˈteɪtəʊ|  British pronunciation of the word potato

noun

- an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland (syn: murphy, spud, tater)
- annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers; widely cultivated as a garden vegetable; vines are poisonous

Extra examples

She's growing carrots and potatoes in her garden this year.

When harvesting, dig up every potato, however small.

Marie stood at the sink, peeling potatoes (=cutting off the skin).

My doctor told me to avoid fatty things like donuts and potato chips.

Potato skin is very nutritious.

Look up the recipe for potato soup in the index.

Potato soup is listed under “soup” in the index.

The prime suspect for the food poisoning is the potato salad.

Would you like some butter for your potato?

She has organized a group of children to participate in a potato sack race

Do you want chives on your baked potato?

Cut the potato crosswise rather than lengthwise into thin slices.

The crop is good, but the potato is going everywhere.

Somebody plugged him with a potato.

In some places the settlers were subsisting on potato peelings.

Word forms

noun
singular: potato
plural: potatoes
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