Potato
[pə'teɪtəʊ] or [pə'teto]
Definition
(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.
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Definition
(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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Definition
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.
Editor: Matt
Unserious Contents or Definition
Dreaming of potatoes, brings incidents often of good. To dream of digging them, denotes success. To dream of eating them, you will enjoy substantial gain. To cook them, congenial employment. Planting them, brings realization of desires. To see them rotting, denotes vanished pleasure and a darkening future.
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Examples
- He afterwards took another chop, and another potato; and after that, another chop and another potato. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I got a drum and went over to the potato farm and sprinkled it on the vines with a pot. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- You know those potato mashers? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- It knocked me down and I thought I was dead all right but those damn potato mashers haven't got anything in them. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- After the peanuts have reached their full growth, they are dug up very much in the same way as potatoes, a machine potato digger now being extensively used for this purpose. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He tells an amusing story of one dilemma into which his good-nature led him at this period: At Menlo Park one day, a farmer came in and asked if I knew any way to kill potato-bugs. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Harvesters for grass and grain have been supplemented by Corn, Cotton, Potato and Flax Harvesters. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- You might as well say that scanning verse will teach you to scan the potato crops. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- One of those potato mashers. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I'd dig the ground and grow potatoes. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The only potatoes we sold were to our own mess. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Their place can be taken by beans, peas, potatoes, etc. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The potatoes had to be hurried, not to keep the asparagus waiting, and were not done at the last. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- For dinner we had a woodcock with souffl?potatoes and pur閑 de marron, a salad, and zabaione for dessert. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- After the peanuts have reached their full growth, they are dug up very much in the same way as potatoes, a machine potato digger now being extensively used for this purpose. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It was potatoes and things that are fried. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The polite and attentive stranger would desire, say, to consult her inclinations on the subject of potatoes. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- But I wish it grew more potatoes. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- There was the meat-pie of which the youth had spoken so feelingly, and there were, moreover, a steak, and a dish of potatoes, and a pot of porter. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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