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Irish potato

noun

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

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

• Part Meronyms: ↑jacket

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noun

Usage: usually capitalized I

: potato 2 a (2)

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potato (def. 1).

[1675-85]

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Irish potato,

the common white potato.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.