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white potato

DEFINITIONS OF: white potato

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

Synonyms:
Solanum tuberosum, potato, white potato vine
Type of:
vine
a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface

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

Synonyms:
Irish potato, murphy, potato, spud, tater
Types:
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baked potato
potato that has been cooked by baking it in an oven
chips, french fries, french-fried potatoes, fries
strips of potato fried in deep fat
home fries, home-fried potatoes
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
jacket potato
a baked potato served with the jacket on
Type 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
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