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potato
[puh-tey-toh, -tuh]
noun
plural
potatoesAlso called white potato.Also called Irish potato,.the edible tuber of a cultivated plant, Solanum tuberosum, of the nightshade family.
the plant itself.
potato
/ əˈٱɪəʊ /
noun
Also called: Irish potato. white 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
slanga delicate or awkward matter
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of potato1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of potato1
Idioms and Phrases
Example Sentences
The seed potato industry says the lost market opportunity into the EU has cost £75m over the last five years.
I’d like to move on to a few questions about sort of the meat and potatoes issues that you touched on earlier.
Slices of homemade zucchini frittata were eaten with roasted potatoes and a mixed greens salad.
Surely Lee, who had previously described himself as a “meat and potatoes” guy, liked Kobe beef?
Von Scherler Mayer reveres Mary’s youth and vitality while celebrating what would be the dying gasp of an era, telegraphing the ways of Mary’s life to even the most oblivious couch potato.
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When To Use
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.
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