Definitions for potatoes
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1. potatoes

   The potato is a starchy food, a tuber of the plant Solanum tuberosum and is a root vegetable native to the Americas. The plant is a perennial in the nightshade family Solanaceae.Wild potato species can be found from the southern United States to southern Chile. The potato was originally believed to have been domesticated by Native Americans independently in multiple locations, but later genetic studies traced a single origin, in the area of present-day southern Peru and extreme northwestern Bolivia. Potatoes were domesticated there approximately 7,000–10,000 years ago, from a species in the Solanum brevicaule complex. In the Andes region of South America, where the species is indigenous, some close relatives of the potato are cultivated. Potatoes were introduced to Europe from the Americas by the Spanish in the second half of the 16th century. Today they are a staple food in many parts of the world and an integral part of much of the world's food supply. As of 2014, potatoes were the world's fourth-largest food crop after maize (corn), wheat, and rice. Following millennia of selective breeding, there are now over 5,000 different types of potatoes. Over 99% of potatoes presently cultivated worldwide descend from varieties that originated in the lowlands of south-central Chile. The importance of the potato as a food source and culinary ingredient varies by region and is still changing. It remains an essential crop in Europe, especially Northern and Eastern Europe, where per capita production is still the highest in the world, while the most rapid expansion in production since 2000 has occurred in southern and eastern Asia, with China and India leading the world in overall production as of 2018. Like the tomato, the potato is a nightshade in the genus Solanum, and the vegetative and fruiting parts of the potato contain the toxin solanine which is dangerous for human consumption. Normal potato tubers that have been grown and stored properly produce glycoalkaloids in amounts small enough to be negligible for human health, but, if green sections of the plant (namely sprouts and skins) are exposed to light, the tuber can accumulate a high enough concentration of glycoalkaloids to affect human health. The discovery of acrylamides in starchy foods in 2002 led to international health concerns, but subsequent high-quality evidence showed acrylamide is not likely to cause cancer in humans.

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1. Potatoes

   of Potato

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1. potatoes

   Plural form of potato.

   Potatoes are grown in a variety of species and used for a variety of different types of food.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on February 18, 2016  

British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'potatoes' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2048

How to pronounce potatoes?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of potatoes in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of potatoes in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of potatoes in a Sentence

1. Professor House:

   Imagine if someone were to finetune our system so that you could get 85 per cent of the carbon and nitrogen back from waste into protein without having to use hydroponics or artificial light, that would be a fantastic development for deep-space travel. It’s faster than growing tomatoes or potatoes.

2. Rob Jackson:

   It's important meat-and-potatoes work we should have done before.

3. Chief Executive Elon Musk:

   Roadster is kind of like dessert, we gotta get the meat and potatoes and greens and stuff.

4. Najib Faris:

   We were so surprised with the idea, you know, you grab a sack of potatoes and drop in 10 bucks in the bucket and leave. And were like, wow, this is amazing.

5. Lawrence Diamond:

   If you're in Idaho and you want to send potatoes to Cuba, this might be a big deal for them up there and the agricultural products.

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References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potatoes
2. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/potatoes