potato

English

Potato and cross-section.

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish patata, itself borrowed from Taíno batata.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /pəˈteɪtəʊ/
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  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pəˈteɪtəʊ/
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  • (General American) enPR: pə-tāʹtō, IPA(key): /pəˈteɪtoʊ/, /pəˈteɪtə/
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  • Rhymes: -eɪtəʊ

Noun

potato (plural potatoes)

  1. A plant tuber, Solanum tuberosum, eaten as a starchy vegetable, particularly in the Americas and Europe
  2. (informal, Britain) A conspicuous hole in a sock or stocking
  3. (humorous) A camera that takes poor-quality pictures.
  4. (slang, offensive) A mentally handicapped person.

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • air potato, air-potato
  • almond potato
  • Amandine potato
  • Andean potato latent virus
  • Andean potato mottle virus
  • Anna potatoes
  • apple potato bread
  • baby potato
  • baked potato
  • baking potato
  • bastard potato
  • Bengal potatoes
  • Bintje potato
  • black potato
  • blue potato
  • boiling potato
  • Bordet-Gengou potato blood agar
  • Brazilian potato tree
  • Burbank potato, Burbank Russet potato
  • Canada potato
  • Canarian wrinkly potatoes
  • Caribe potato
  • Carolina potato
  • chat potatoes
  • chef's potato
  • Chilean potato-tree, Chilean potato vine
  • Chilian potato
  • Chinese potato
  • clean potato
  • cold-potato routing
  • coleus potato
  • Colorado potato beetle
  • couch potato
  • Cree potato
  • Cuban sweet potato
  • Delmonico potato
  • duchess potatoes, duchesse potatoes
  • duck potato
  • false potato beetle
  • fauxtato
  • fingerling potato
  • finger potato
  • frafra potato
  • French-fried potatoes
  • giant potato creeper
  • glasshouse and potato aphid
  • Greenfield potatoes
  • Hausa potato
  • hog potato
  • hog's potato
  • home-fried potatoes
  • hot potato
  • Idaho potato
  • Indian potato
  • Irish potato
  • Irish potato bread
  • Irish Potato Famine
  • jacket potato
  • Japanese potato
  • Jersey Royal potatoes
  • Jerusalem potato
  • little potato
  • Livingstone potato
  • long white potato
  • low-starch potato
  • Lyonnaise potatoes
  • Madagascar potato
  • mashed potato, mashed potatoes
  • meat and potatoes
  • meat and potato pie
  • Mexican potato
  • mouse potato
  • Mr. Potato Head
  • native potato
  • new potato
  • O'Brien potatoes
  • oca potato
  • one potato, two potato
  • pineapple potato
  • potater
  • potato aphid
  • potato apple, potato-apple
  • potato aucuba mosaic virus
  • potato badger
  • potato-ball
  • potato bean, potato-bean
  • potato beetle, potato-beetle
  • potato black ringspot virus
  • potato blight
  • potato blood agar
  • potato-bogle
  • potato-box
  • potato bread
  • potato bug, potato-bug
  • potato cake, potato-cake
  • potato cannon
  • potato chips
  • potato clay
  • potato creeper
  • potato crisps
  • potato curl
  • potato cyst
  • potato cyst nematode
  • potato deforming mosaic virus
  • potato dextrose agar
  • potato dextrose broth
  • potato disease
  • potato dumpling
  • potatoe
  • potato-eater
  • potato-eel
  • potatoes and point
  • potatoey
  • potato-eye
  • potato failure
  • potato family
  • potato famine
  • potato farls
  • potato fern
  • potato finger
  • potato flake
  • potato flour
  • potato fly
  • potato-fly
  • potato fork
  • potato fungus
  • potato grant
  • potato gun
  • potato-headed
  • potato hook
  • potato-jaw
  • potato kugel
  • potato late blight
  • potato latent virus
  • potato latke
  • potato leafhopper
  • potato leaf roll virus, potato leafroll virus
  • potato lectin
  • potatoless
  • potato-loaf
  • potato masher, potato-masher
  • potato mildew
  • potato-mill
  • potato mold, potato mould
  • potato mop-top virus
  • potato mosaic
  • potato moth
  • potato-mouth
  • potato-mouthed
  • potato murrain
  • potato nose, potato-nose
  • potato nuggets
  • potato oat
  • potato of Canada
  • potato oil
  • potato onion
  • potato pancake
  • potato paradox
  • potato patch
  • potato peel
  • potato peeler, potato-peeler
  • potato peelings
  • potato pen
  • potato pie
  • potato pit
  • potato plant
  • potato pretender
  • potato psyllid
  • potato pudding
  • potato puff
  • potato race
  • potato ricer
  • potato ring, potato-ring
  • potato-root
  • potato root nematode
  • potato rot
  • potato rot nematode
  • potato rugose mosaic
  • potato salad
  • potato scab
  • potato scab bacteria
  • potato scone
  • potato-scoop
  • potato set
  • potato-shop
  • potato-sick
  • potato spindle tuber viroid
  • potato spirit, potato-spirit
  • potato split-worm
  • potato-spraying
  • potato-stalk weevil
  • potato starch
  • potato stem mottle
  • potato stick
  • potato straw
  • potato sugar
  • potato trap, potato-trap
  • potato tree, potato-tree
  • potato tuber moth
  • potato tuber nematode
  • potato tuberworm
  • potato tumor, potato tumour
  • potato vine
  • potato virus A
  • potato virus M
  • potato virus S
  • potato virus T
  • potato virus U
  • potato virus V
  • potato virus X
  • potato virus Y
  • Potato War
  • potato wart
  • potato wart fungus
  • potato weevil
  • potato whisky
  • potato-woman
  • potato worm
  • potato yam
  • potato yellow dwarf
  • potato yellow dwarf virus, potato yellow-dwarf virus
  • potato yellowing virus
  • potato yellow mosaic virus
  • potato yellow vein virus
  • potayto, potahto
  • prairie potato
  • Price's potato-bean
  • prickly potato
  • purple Peruvian potato
  • purple potato
  • red potato
  • red round potato
  • red-skinned potato
  • Russet Burbank potato
  • russet potato
  • salt potatoes
  • scalloped potatoes
  • sea potato
  • seaside potato
  • seed potato
  • shoestring potatoes
  • small potato, small potatoes, small potatoes and a few in a hill, small potatoes and a few in the hill
  • smashed potatoes
  • Spanish potato
  • starchy potato
  • Sudan potato
  • swamp potato
  • sweet potato
  • tater
  • Telinga potato
  • telingo potato
  • ten-lined potato beetle
  • Uruguay potato
  • Uruguay potato vine
  • Virginia potato, Virginian potato
  • Vivaldi potato
  • waxy potato
  • white potato
  • white potato vine
  • white round potato
  • wild potato
  • wild potato mosaic virus
  • wild potato vine, wild sweet potato vine
  • wild sweet potato
  • yellow dwarf of potato
  • Yellow Finnish potato
  • Yellow Finn potato
  • yellow potato
  • Yukon Gold potato
  • Zulu potato, Zulu round potato

Translations

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Anagrams


Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from English potato.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /poˈta.to/, /pɔˈta.tɔ/

Noun

potato (plural potati)

  1. potato

Synonyms


Italian

Verb

potato m (feminine singular potata, masculine plural potati, feminine plural potate)

  1. past participle of potare

Anagrams


Latin

Pronunciation

Verb

pōtātō

  1. second-person singular future active imperative of pōtō
  2. third-person singular future active imperative of pōtō
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