noun
potato
puh-TAY-toh/pəˈteɪtəʊ/
A starchy edible tuber or the plant that produces it.
The split baked potato reveals fluffy pale flesh beneath its brown skin.
Etymology
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.
In context
every potato you could think of the red ones the gold ones the russet the thousands of potato types that are commonly found in grocery stores
More examples
- We roast the potatoes with olive oil and rosemary.
- Each potato plant produces several tubers underground.
- He leaves the skin on his baked potato.
Forms
potato · potatoes