POTATO


Meaning of POTATO in English

/ pəˈteɪtəʊ; NAmE -toʊ/ noun

[ C , U ] ( pl. -oes ) a round white vegetable with a brown or red skin that grows underground as the root of a plant also called a potato :

Will you peel the potatoes for me?

roast / boiled / baked / fried potatoes

—see also couch potato , hot potato , jacket , mashed potato , meat and potatoes , meat-and-potatoes , small potatoes , sweet potato

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WORD ORIGIN

mid 16th cent.: from Spanish patata , variant of Taino batata sweet potato. The English word originally denoted the sweet potato and gained its current sense in the late 16th cent.

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь для изучающик язык на продвинутом уровне.