Definitions for potato
pəˈteɪ toʊ, -təpota·to

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. potato, white potato, Irish potato, murphy, spud, taternoun

   an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland

2. potato, white potato, white potato vine, Solanum tuberosumnoun

   annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers; widely cultivated as a garden vegetable; vines are poisonous

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. potatonoun

   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.

2. potatonoun

   A conspicuous hole in a sock or stocking

   Etymology: From batata, via patata. Not from a hypothetical Nahuatl word *potatl.

Webster Dictionary(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Potatonoun

   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.]

2. Potatonoun

   the sweet potato (see below)

   Etymology: [Sp. patata potato, batata sweet potato, from the native American name (probably batata) in Hayti.]

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. 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.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. 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.]

Editors Contribution(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. 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  

2. potato

   A type of vegetable.

   Potatoes are a type of vegetable cultivated and eaten worldwide.

   Submitted by MaryC on December 8, 2016  

Matched Categories

1. • Root Vegetable
   • Starches
   • Vine

British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

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

2. Nouns Frequency

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

Anagrams for potato »

1. patoot

How to pronounce potato?

1. Alex

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   Daniel

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   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of potato in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of potato in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of potato in a Sentence

1. Nadir Shah:

   I know I’ll have to spend half of my earnings to purchase the potato seed for my next crop.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Johnny Wowk:

   The only healthy potato is a steamed organic sweet potato -Johnny Wowk AKA Johnny The Walker

5. Sonja Boeff:

   They're addicting, like potato chips, everyone I know who's started with one or two llamas winds up getting more.

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