Definitions for potato
pəˈteɪ toʊ, -təpota·to

potato, white potato, Irish potato, murphy, spud, tater(noun)
an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland
potato, white potato, white potato vine, Solanum tuberosum(noun)
annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers; widely cultivated as a garden vegetable; vines are poisonous

potato(Noun)
A plant tuber, Solanum tuberosum, eaten as a starchy vegetable, particularly in the Americas and Europe
Etymology: From batata, via patata. Not from a hypothetical Nahuatl word *potatl.
potato(Noun)
A conspicuous hole in a sock or stocking
Etymology: From batata, via patata. Not from a hypothetical Nahuatl word *potatl.

Potato(noun)
a plant (Solanum tuberosum) of the Nightshade family, and its esculent farinaceous tuber, of which there are numerous varieties used for food. It is native of South America, but a form of the species is found native as far north as New Mexico
Etymology: [Sp. patata potato, batata sweet potato, from the native American name (probably batata) in Hayti.]
Potato(noun)
the sweet potato (see below)
Etymology: [Sp. patata potato, batata sweet potato, from the native American name (probably batata) in Hayti.]

Potato
The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial Solanum tuberosum of the Solanaceae family. The word may refer to the plant itself as well as the edible tuber. In the region of the Andes, there are some other closely related cultivated potato species. Potatoes were introduced outside the Andes region four centuries ago, and have become an integral part of much of the world's cuisine. It is the world's fourth-largest food crop, following rice, wheat and maize. Long-term storage of potatoes requires specialised care in cold warehouses. Wild potato species occur throughout the Americas, from the United States to southern Chile. The potato was originally believed to have been domesticated independently in multiple locations, but later genetic testing of the wide variety of cultivars and wild species proved a single origin for potatoes in the area of present-day southern Peru and extreme northwestern Bolivia, where they were domesticated 7,000–10,000 years ago. Following centuries of selective breeding, there are now over a thousand different types of potatoes. Of these subspecies, a variety that at one point grew in the Chiloé Archipelago left its germplasm on over 99% of the cultivated potatoes worldwide.

Potato
pō-tā′tō, n. one of the tubers of a plant almost universally cultivated for food in the temperate parts of the globe: the plant itself:—pl. Potā′toes.—ns. Potā′to-bee′tle, a North American beetle which commits fearful ravages among potatoes; Potā′to-bing (Scot.), a heap of potatoes to be preserved; Potā′to-bō′gle (Scot.), a scarecrow; Potā′to-disease′, -rot, a destructive disease of the potato caused by a parasitic fungus; Potā′to-fing′er (Shak.), a fat finger, used in contempt; Potā′to-fly, a dipterous insect of the same genus as the radish-fly, whose maggots are often abundant in bad potatoes in autumn.—Small potatoes (U.S.), anything petty or contemptible. [Sp. patata, batata, orig. Haytian.]

potato
A type of cultivar, plant or seed created and cultivated in various species.
There are thousands of varieties of potatoes grown across the world and they are one of the worlds most popular grown tuber vegetables and food.
Submitted by MaryC on December 8, 2016
potato
A type of vegetable.
Potatoes are a type of vegetable cultivated and eaten worldwide.
Submitted by MaryC on December 8, 2016

Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'potato' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3454
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'potato' in Nouns Frequency: #1561

Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of potato in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of potato in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Jim Kabbani:
Potato chip companies have become creative in their advertising, even going as far as changing the shape of their chips to triangles or mixing ingredients to make a hybrid chip.
Alexander Bernstein:
It's not really the cliche of sitting around and eating a bag of potato chips and playing games, there is more to it and this is starting to explode and be a new world order that's taking over regular sports.
Laila Tabatabai:
If you’ve already had something sweet and sugary, stick with salad and lean protein, you don’t need the additional potato or pasta carbs piled on top.
Carmela Stamper:
Feeding the odd potato chip or pretzel probably won’t do any harm.
Venkatesh Murthy:
The main limitations are that this is from a group of men born more than 100 years ago in Sweden, although it’s very likely that the general principles hold today, there probably was n’t much ‘ couch potato ’ behavior in those days.