What does potato mean?
Potato means A plant of species Solanum tuberosum or its edible starchy tuber..
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/pəˈteɪ.təʊ/ · noun
A plant of species Solanum tuberosum or its edible starchy tuber..
What was that about potatoes? Were they just a thing from foreign parts, like coffee; a luxury, an extra? Oh, the potato is a lordly fruit; drought or downpour, it grows and grows all the same. It laughs at the weather, and will stand anything; only deal kindly with it, and it yields fifteen-fold again. … A man may lack grain to make bread, but give him potatoes and he will not starve. Roast them in embers, and there is supper; boil them in water, and there's a breakfast ready.
Do not let your child have potato for another year; he will probably take milk well enough after he is weaned.
The protein value of this dish is equal to that of 1⅛ pounds of potato and beef, the fuel value, however, being much in excess of these.
A number of the children said that they had potato for breakfast, potato and herring for dinner, potato and milk for supper.
Although the potato actually has no exciting value, it was believed, in the seventeenth century, to possess definite aphrodisiac qualities, and is frequent mentioned in this respect in Elizabethan drama.
Potatoes were introduced to Ireland in 1590 after being brought to Europe by Spanish conquistadores from their place of origin in the South American Andes.
The rocketing popularity of potatoes in London's diet led to the conversion of the temporary GNR passenger station north of the canal [...] as a dedicated potato terminal, whose significant traffic was stolen from coastal shipping.
She was untidily dressed as usual and there were potatoes in both heels.
Use potato when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Potato means A plant of species Solanum tuberosum or its edible starchy tuber..
Common synonyms include p'tater, spud, tater, tatie.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
What was that about potatoes? Were they just a thing from foreign parts, like coffee; a luxury, an extra? Oh, the potato is a lordly fruit; drought or downpour, it grows and grows all the same. It laughs at the weather, and will stand anything; only deal kindly with it, and it yields fifteen-fold again. … A man may lack grain to make bread, but give him potatoes and he will not starve. Roast them in embers, and there is supper; boil them in water, and there's a breakfast ready.
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