| 单词 | potato |
| 释义 | potato (once / 251 pages) n The potato is a mighty tuber! You can find it baked, mashed, or fried, among other things, in kitchens the world over. Potato, which comes from the Spanish word patata, originally meant "sweet potato." Potatoes have been around for quite awhile. If you'd lived in the Andes 1800 years ago, you might have been eating potatoes ever since (though you might be sick of them by now). Remember that the plural form of this starchy vegetable ends in "toes." WORD FAMILYpotato: potatoes, potatos USAGE EXAMPLESGreat vintage advertisement: The Union Pacific railroad touts its access to “America’s vital potato markets.” Time(Jan 02, 2017) Roaming vendors sell doughnuts and potato chips while beer and food trucks contribute to the happy-hour atmosphere. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) Suppose you are a basic Couch Potato investor and you’ve chosen to avoid credit risk. Seattle Times(Dec 31, 2016) 1n an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland Syn|Hypo|Hyper Irish potato, murphy, spud, tater, white potato baked potato potato that has been cooked by baking it in an oven chips, french fries, french-fried potatoes, friesstrips of potato fried in deep fat home fries, home-fried potatoessliced pieces of potato fried in a pan until brown and crisp mashed potatopotato that has been peeled and boiled and then mashed Uruguay potatosimilar to the common potato jacket potatoa baked potato served with the jacket on starches foodstuff rich in natural starch (especially potatoes, rice, bread) solanaceous vegetableany of several fruits of plants of the family Solanaceae; especially of the genera Solanum, Capsicum, and Lycopersicon root vegetableany of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers 2n annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers; widely cultivated as a garden vegetable; vines are poisonous Syn|Hyper Solanum tuberosum, white potato, white potato vine vine a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface |
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