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white potato

noun

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

• Syn: ↑potato, ↑Irish potato, ↑murphy, ↑spud, ↑tater

• Hypernyms: ↑root vegetable, ↑starches, ↑solanaceous vegetable

• Hyponyms:

↑baked potato, ↑french fries, ↑french-fried potatoes, ↑fries, ↑chips, ↑home fries, ↑home-fried potatoes, ↑mashed potato, ↑Uruguay potato

• Part Holonyms: ↑potato, ↑white potato vine, ↑Solanum tuberosum

• Part Meronyms: ↑jacket

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

• Syn: ↑potato, ↑white potato vine, ↑Solanum tuberosum

• Hypernyms: ↑vine

• Member Holonyms: ↑Solanum, ↑genus Solanum

• Part Meronyms: ↑potato, ↑Irish potato, ↑murphy, ↑spud, ↑tater

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noun

: potato 2a(2)

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potato (def. 1).

[1785-95, Amer.]

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white potato,

= potato (def. 2). (Cf. ↑potato)

Useful english dictionary. 2012.