transcription, транскрипция: [ pəteɪtoʊ ]
( potatoes)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Potatoes are quite round vegetables with brown or red skins and white insides. They grow under the ground.
N-VAR
see also sweet potato
2.
You can refer to a difficult subject that people disagree on as a hot potato .
...a political hot potato such as abortion.
PHRASE : N inflects