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/waɪt pətˈeɪtˌoʊ/ Listen

White potato

noun

Annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers; widely cultivated as a garden vegetable; vines are poisonous. Synonyms: potato, Solanum tuberosum, white potato vine.

An edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland. Synonyms: Irish potato, murphy, potato, spud, tater.

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... plant; it is a native of tropical climate, but it is grown in states as far north as New York. The delicious yams of the southern states and the West Indies are made into many attractive foods. The food value of the sweet potato is closely allied to that of the white potato, but it contains from 4 to 10 per cent. sugar, where the ordinary white potato has no sugar. And, then, too, this common vegetable will provide ...

— Mrs. Wilson's Cook Book - Numerous New Recipes Based on Present Economic Conditions • Mary A. Wilson

... what was done by the ancient highlanders of Peru. As they spread over a country in which the arable flat land was usually at so great an elevation as to be suitable for only the hardiest of root crops, like the white potato and the oca, they were driven to use narrow valley bottoms and steep, though fertile, slopes in order to raise the precious maize and many of the other temperate and tropical plants which they domesticated for food and medicinal purposes. They were constantly confronted ...

— Inca Land - Explorations in the Highlands of Peru • Hiram Bingham

Words linked to "White potato" : french-fried potatoes, baked potato, genus Solanum, Solanum, murphy, root vegetable, tater, home fries, home-fried potatoes, jacket, mashed potato, french fries, chips, Uruguay potato, fries, starches, Irish potato, vine, solanaceous vegetable