- a round white vegetable with a brown or red skin that grows underground as part of a plant also called a potato
- Will you peel the potatoes for me?
- roast/fried potatoes
- potato salad
- leek and potato soup
Extra ExamplesTopics Fooda1- a plate of fried potato skins
- boiled potatoes with sour cream and chives
- potatoes baked in their jackets
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- baking
- new
- sweet
- …
- sack
- eat
- have
- peel
- …
- chip
- crisp
- pancake
- …
Word Originmid 16th cent.: from Spanish patata, variant of Taino batata ‘sweet potato’. The English word originally denoted the sweet potato and gained its current sense in the late 16th cent.Definitions on the go
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