Definition of Potato

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Potato

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.

The sweet potato (see below).

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Potato Quotations

A potato can grow quite easily on a very small plot of land. With molecular manufacturing, we'll be able to have distributed manufacturing, which will permit manufacturing at the site using technologies that are low-cost and easily available.
Ralph Merkle

My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
Oprah Winfrey

So I set out to study the oxidation system in the potato, which, if damaged, causes the plant to turn brown. I did this in the hope of discovering, through these studies, the key to the understanding of adrenal function.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of meat in it, in the evening we had a very thin meat soup with some potatoes in it.
Leon Askin

Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.
Jim Fowler

Potato Translations

potato in Afrikaans is aartappel
potato in Danish is kartoffel
potato in Dutch is pieper, aardappel
potato in Finnish is peruna
potato in French is pomme-de-terre, pomme de terre
potato in German is Kartoffel
potato in Hungarian is burgonya, krumpli
potato in Italian is patata
potato in Norwegian is potet
potato in Portuguese is batata
potato in Spanish is patata
potato in Swedish is potatis


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