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

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

I love all kinds of bread. Whenever I crave junk food, I want salty things like peanuts or potato chips.
Tyra Banks

Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north.
Michael Pollan

If you begin a conversation about potato salad and find yourself being called a castrating bitch, don't waste your time going around and around about this with your girlfriends, trying to figure out what happened.
Merrill Markoe

I'm pretty much a couch potato.
Wentworth Miller

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

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

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

When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on.
Doris Roberts

You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.
Rebecca H. Davis

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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