potato : Idioms & Phrases

• noun yam of tropical Africa and Asia cultivated for it large tubers
  Dioscorea bulbifera.
  

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• noun potato that has been cooked by baking it in an oven
  

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• noun South American shrub or small tree widely cultivated in the tropics; not a true potato
  Solanum macranthum; Solanum wrightii; Brazilian potato tree.
  

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• small potatoes, such as are given to swine. Local.

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• noun black-and-yellow beetle that feeds in adult and larval stages on potato leaves; originally of eastern Rocky Mountains; now worldwide
  potato beetle; Leptinotarsa decemlineata; Colorado potato beetle; Colorado beetle.
  

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• noun an idler who spends much time on a couch (usually watching television)
  

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• noun strips of potato fried in deep fat
  french fries; fries; chips.
  

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• noun vine of Costa Rica sparsely armed with hooklike spines and having large lilac-blue flowers
  giant potato creeper; Solanum wendlandii.
  

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• noun sliced pieces of potato fried in a pan until brown and crisp
  home fries.
  

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• noun a difficult situation
  
  • he dropped the topic like a hot potato

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• noun a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans
  wild bean; Indian potato; Apios tuberosa; groundnut; Apios americana; groundnut vine.
  
• noun very tall American perennial of central and the eastern United States to Canada having edible tuberous roots
  tall sunflower; giant sunflower; Helianthus giganteus.
  

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• noun an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland
  potato; spud; murphy; Irish potato; tater.
  

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• the ordinary white potato, so called because it is a favorite article of food in Ireland.

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• noun a baked potato served with the jacket on
  

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• noun rhizoctinia disease of potatoes
  russet scab; stem canker; rosette.
  

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• noun potato that has been peeled and boiled and then mashed
  

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• n. pl. Potatoes which have been boiled and mashed to a pulpy consistency, usu. with sparing addition of milk, salt, butter, or other flavoring. It is a popular accompaniment to a meat course [U.S., 1900's], providing bulk and calories to a meal.

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• noun the fundamental part
  
  • successful negotiation is the meat and potatoes of arbitration

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• noun twining plant of Amazon basin having large edible roots
  Pachyrhizus tuberosus; yam bean.
  
• noun a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans
  wild bean; Indian potato; Apios tuberosa; groundnut; Apios americana; groundnut vine.
  
• noun nutlike tuber; important food of Native Americans
  wild bean; groundnut.
  

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• noun black-and-yellow beetle that feeds in adult and larval stages on potato leaves; originally of eastern Rocky Mountains; now worldwide
  potato beetle; Leptinotarsa decemlineata; Colorado potato beetle; Colorado beetle.
  

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• . (Zoöl.) (a) A beetle (Doryphora decemlineata) which feeds, both in the larval and adult stages, upon the leaves of the potato, often doing great damage. Called also Colorado potato beetle, and Doryphora. See Colorado beetle. (b) The Lema trilineata, a smaller and more slender striped beetle which feeds upon the potato plant, bur does less injury than the preceding species.

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• noun a blight of potatoes
  potato disease; potato mold; potato mildew; potato blight.
  

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• noun black-and-yellow beetle that feeds in adult and larval stages on potato leaves; originally of eastern Rocky Mountains; now worldwide
  potato beetle; Leptinotarsa decemlineata; Colorado potato beetle; Colorado beetle.
  

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• noun a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat
  Saratoga chip; chip; crisp.
  

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• noun a blight of potatoes
  potato disease; potato mold; potato mildew; potato blight.
  

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• noun large and economically important family of herbs or shrubs or trees often strongly scented and sometimes narcotic or poisonous; includes the genera Solanum, Atropa, Brugmansia, Capsicum, Datura, Hyoscyamus, Lycopersicon, Nicotiana, Petunia, Physalis, and Solandra
  family Solanaceae; Solanaceae.
  

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• noun large Australasian evergreen fern with an edible rhizome sometimes used as a vegetable by indigenous people
  Marattia salicina.
  
• noun small epiphytic fern of South America with tuberous swellings along rhizomes
  Solanopteris bifrons.
  

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• (Zoöl.), any one of several species of blister beetles infesting the potato vine. The black species (Lytta atrata), the striped (L. vittata), and the gray (L. cinerea, ∨ Fabricii) are the most common. See Blister beetle, under Blister.

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• noun fungus causing a disease in potatoes characterized by black scurfy spots on the tubers
  Pellicularia filamentosa; Rhizoctinia solani.
  

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• noun a blight of potatoes
  potato disease; potato mold; potato mildew; potato blight.
  

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• noun a blight of potatoes
  potato disease; potato mold; potato mildew; potato blight.
  

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• noun a disease of the leaves of potato plants
  

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• noun greyish-brown moth whose larva is the potato tuberworm
  splitworm; Phthorimaea operculella; potato moth.
  

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• noun a blight of potatoes
  potato disease; potato mold; potato mildew; potato blight.
  

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• noun enlargement of the nose with dilation of follicles and redness and prominent vascularity of the skin; often associated with excessive consumption of alcohol
  copper nose; rum-blossom; hypertrophic rosacea; rum nose; brandy nose; rhinophyma; toper's nose; hammer nose.
  

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• noun made of grated potato and egg with a little flour
  latke.
  

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• noun crisp fried potato peeling
  potato peelings; potato peel.
  

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• noun crisp fried potato peeling
  potato peelings; potato peel.
  

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• noun a novelty race in which competitors move potatoes from one place to another one at a time
  

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• a disease of the tubers of the potato, supposed to be caused by a kind of mold (Peronospora infestans), which is first seen upon the leaves and stems.

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• noun any of various salads having chopped potatoes as the base
  

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• noun cause of a potato disease characterized by brownish corky tissue
  Streptomyces scabies.
  

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• noun crisp fried potato peeling
  potato peelings; potato peel.
  

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• noun South American shrub or small tree widely cultivated in the tropics; not a true potato
  Solanum macranthum; Solanum wrightii; Brazilian potato tree.
  
• noun hardy climbing shrub of Chile grown as an ornamental for its fragrant flowers; not a true potato
  Solanum crispum.
  

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• noun greyish-brown moth whose larva is the potato tuberworm
  splitworm; Phthorimaea operculella; potato moth.
  

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• noun larva of potato moth; mines in leaves and stems of e.g. potatoes and tobacco
  Phthorimaea operculella.
  

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• noun vine of Costa Rica sparsely armed with hooklike spines and having large lilac-blue flowers
  giant potato creeper; Solanum wendlandii.
  
• noun copiously branched vine of Brazil having deciduous leaves and white flowers tinged with blue
  Solanum jasmoides.
  

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• noun fungous disease causing dark warty spongy excrescences in the eyes of potato tubers
  

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• noun fungus causing potato wart disease in potato tubers
  Synchytrium endobioticum.
  

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• (Zoöl.), an American weevil (Baridius trinotatus) whose larva lives in and kills the stalks of potato vines, often causing serious damage to the crop.

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• a strong, fiery liquor, having a hot, smoky taste, and rich in amyl alcohol (fusel oil); it is made from potatoes or potato starch.

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• noun large green white-striped hawkmoth larva that feeds on tomato and potato plants; similar to tobacco hornworm
  tomato hornworm; Manduca quinquemaculata.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the large green larva of a sphinx, or hawk moth (Macrosila quinquemaculata); called also tomato worm. See Illust. under Tomato.

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• noun the yellow dwarf disease of potato plants
  potato yellow dwarf.
  

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• noun the virus that produces stunting and yellowing of the leaves of potato plants
  

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• (Bot.), Ipomoea Pes-Capræ, a kind of morning-glory with rounded and emarginate or bilobed leaves. West Indies

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• (Bot.), the sweet potato. See under Potato.

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• noun pantropical vine widely cultivated in several varieties for its large sweet tuberous root with orange flesh
  Ipomoea batatas; sweet potato.
  
• noun the edible tuberous root of the sweet potato vine which is grown widely in warm regions of the United States
  
• noun egg-shaped terra cotta wind instrument with a mouthpiece and finger holes
  ocarina.
  

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• (Bot.), a climbing plant (Ipomoea Balatas) allied to the morning-glory. Its farinaceous tubers have a sweetish taste, and are used, when cooked, for food. It is probably a native of Brazil, but is cultivated extensively in the warmer parts of every continent, and even as far north as New Jersey. The name potato was applied to this plant before it was to the Solanum tuberosum, and this is the "potato" of the Southern United States.

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• noun pantropical vine widely cultivated in several varieties for its large sweet tuberous root with orange flesh
  Ipomoea batatas; sweet potato.
  

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• noun disease of sweet potatoes in which roots are girdled by rings of dry rot
  

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• noun a variety of whitefly
  

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• noun putrid-smelling aroid of southeastern Asia (especially the Philippines) grown for its edible tuber
  pungapung; elephant yam; Amorphophallus campanulatus; Amorphophallus paeonifolius.
  

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• noun South American potato vine
  Uruguay potato; Solanum commersonii.
  
• noun similar to the common potato
  

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• noun South American potato vine
  Uruguay potato; Solanum commersonii.
  

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• noun annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers; widely cultivated as a garden vegetable; vines are poisonous
  Solanum tuberosum; white potato; potato.
  
• noun an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland
  potato; spud; murphy; Irish potato; tater.
  

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

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• noun erect or spreading perennial of southwestern United States and Mexico bearing small pale brown to cream-colored tubers resembling potatoes
  Solanum jamesii.
  

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• . (Bot.) (a) A vine (Ipomoea pandurata) having a pale purplish flower and an enormous root. It is common in sandy places in the United States. (b) A similar tropical American plant (I. fastigiata) which it is thought may have been the original stock of the sweet potato.

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• noun tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root; sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato
  man-of-the-earth; scammonyroot; wild potato vine; Ipomoea panurata; manroot; Ipomoea fastigiata.
  

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• noun tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root; sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato
  man-of-the-earth; scammonyroot; wild potato vine; Ipomoea panurata; manroot; Ipomoea fastigiata.
  

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• noun the yellow dwarf disease of potato plants
  potato yellow dwarf.
  

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