potato

/pə'teitou/
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potato

A farmer harvests potatoes from a field.

Definition
  1. Noun:
    • A starchy edible tuber: A potato is the round or oval tuber of a plant (Solanum tuberosum), which is a staple food in many parts of the world. It has brown, red, or yellow skin and white, yellow, or purple flesh.
    • The plant itself: The potato is also the name for the plant that produces these tubers, a herbaceous annual native to South America.
Examples of Usage
  • Noun (referring to the tuber):
    • For dinner, we had roast chicken with mashed potato.
    • She is peeling potatoes for the stew.
  • Noun (referring to the plant):
    • The farmer planted a field of potatoes.
    • Potato vines can be toxic if ingested.
Advanced Usage
  • "Small potato" or "small potatoes" (idiomatic, informal): Something or someone insignificant or unimportant.
    • That contract is small potatoes compared to our other deals.
  • "Hot potato" (idiomatic): A controversial or difficult issue that is awkward to handle.
    • The topic of budget cuts is a political hot potato.
Variants and Related Words
  • Potatoes (n): The standard plural form.
  • Sweet potato (n): A different plant () with a sweet-tasting tuber. This is a separate compound term.
  • Potato chip (n, chiefly US) / Crisp (n, chiefly UK): A thin slice of potato fried until crisp. This is a separate compound term.
Synonyms
  • Spud (n, informal): A casual synonym for a potato.
  • Tuber: A botanical term for the type of plant structure.
Related Phrases (Phrasal Verbs)

(Note: "Potato" is a noun and does not form standard phrasal verbs. The idiomatic expressions are listed above.)

Related Idioms
  • "Couch potato": A person who spends a lot of time sitting and watching television.
    • After retiring, he turned into a bit of a couch potato.
  • "Meat and potatoes": Used to describe the most basic, fundamental, or essential parts of something.
    • His speech was the meat and potatoes of the policy, without any fancy details.
potato

A farmer harvests potatoes from a field.

Noun
  1. annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers; widely cultivated as a garden vegetable; vines are poisonous
  2. an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland

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