POTATO

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected form: potatoes

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

Irish potato; murphy; potato; spud; tater; white potato

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("potato" is a kind of...):

starches (foodstuff rich in natural starch (especially potatoes, rice, bread))

solanaceous vegetable (any of several fruits of plants of the family Solanaceae; especially of the genera Solanum, Capsicum, and Lycopersicon)

root vegetable (any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers)

Meronyms (parts of "potato"):

jacket (the outer skin of a potato)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "potato"):

baked potato (potato that has been cooked by baking it in an oven)

chips; french-fried potatoes; french fries; fries (strips of potato fried in deep fat)

home-fried potatoes; home fries (sliced pieces of potato fried in a pan until brown and crisp)

mashed potato (potato that has been peeled and boiled and then mashed)

Uruguay potato (similar to the common potato)

Holonyms ("potato" is a part of...):

potato; Solanum tuberosum; white potato; white potato vine (annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers; widely cultivated as a garden vegetable; vines are poisonous)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

potato; Solanum tuberosum; white potato; white potato vine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("potato" is a kind of...):

vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)

Meronyms (parts of "potato"):

Irish potato; murphy; potato; spud; tater; white potato (an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland)

Holonyms ("potato" is a member of...):

genus Solanum; Solanum (type genus of the Solanaceae: nightshade; potato; eggplant; bittersweet)

Credits

Context examples:

“Even to the peeling of potatoes and the washing of dishes,” I answered, “to say nothing to wringing their necks out of very fellowship.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Grant: these potatoes have as much the flavour of a Moor Park apricot as the fruit from that tree.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Similarly, GM potatoes do not bruise easily and, on deep frying, produce less acrylamide, a potentially cancer-causing chemical.

(GM tech expands with more crops to more countries, SciDev.Net)

Besides, the lad was in training, and the other would burst like an overdone potato if he were hit.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A natural toxic furan isolated from a fungus-infected sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Ipomeanol, NCI Thesaurus)

Ascorbic acid is found in all fruits and vegetables, especially citrus fruits, strawberries, cantaloupe, green peppers, tomatoes, broccoli, leafy greens, and potatoes.

(Ascorbic acid, NCI Dictionary)

The ozone (O3) gas changes the molecular properties of the starch from the root vegetable to produce a bioplastic 30 per cent tougher than those made of the starch of potato, rice or maize, the researchers say.

(Scientists develop biodegradable plastic from cassava starch, SciDev.Net)

They compared the sites of the statues to sites associated with the specific resources: the kind of rock the statues are made of, the kind of rock used for tools, fishing, vegetable and potato cultivation, and water sources.

(Scientists report correlation between locations of Easter Island statues and water resources, Wikinews)

The technology is expected to speed up the process for developing new varieties of potatoes, rice, citrus and other crops that are better equipped to tolerate heat and drought, produce higher yields and resist a myriad of diseases and pests.

(Innovative Approach to Breeding Could Mean Higher Yields and Better Crops, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Astonishingly, three-toed sloths, which are more specialized to their environment, expend as little as 460 kilojoules of energy a day, the equivalent of burning a mere 110 calories — roughly the same number of calories in a baked potato.