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patata

sweet potato

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A close, simple still life of two whole brown-skinned potatoes beside a split baked potato with fluffy pale flesh, making the vegetable and its cooked form immediately recognizable.
noun

potato

puh-TAY-toh/pəˈteɪtəʊ/

A starchy edible tuber or the plant that produces it.

Etymology
potatoSpanishsweet potato

Spanish patata supplied a name originally used in English for the sweet potato. That name was later extended to the common potato because both were broadly similar edible underground tubers.

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