/ 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.