Potato

[pə'teɪtəʊ] or [pə'teto]

解释:

(noun.) an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland.

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

录入:玛莎--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) A plant (Solanum tuberosum) of the Nightshade family, and its esculent farinaceous tuber, of which there are numerous varieties used for food. It is native of South America, but a form of the species is found native as far north as New Mexico.

(n.) The sweet potato (see below).

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解释:

n. one of the tubers of a plant almost universally cultivated for food in the temperate parts of the globe: the plant itself:—pl. Potā′toes.—ns. Potā′to-bee′tle a North American beetle which commits fearful ravages among potatoes; Potā′to-bing (Scot.) a heap of potatoes to be preserved; Potā′to-bō′gle (Scot.) a scarecrow; Potā′to-disease′ -rot a destructive disease of the potato caused by a parasitic fungus; Potā′to-fing′er (Shak.) a fat finger used in contempt; Potā′to-fly a dipterous insect of the same genus as the radish-fly whose maggots are often abundant in bad potatoes in autumn.—Small potatoes (U.S.) anything petty or contemptible.

校对:马特