1. An edible tuber native to South America
   "They planted Murphy potatoes in their garden";
   - white potato [US], Irish potato [US], murphy [informal], spud [informal], tater [informal], tatie [UK, dialect], pratie [Ireland], tattie [UK, dialect], praty [Ireland], aloo [Asia], alu [Asia]
    
2. Annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers; widely cultivated as a garden vegetable; vines are poisonous
   "The potato plants produced a bumper crop this year"; "The white potato plants produced a bumper crop this year";
   - white potato [US], white potato vine, Solanum tuberosum

Derived forms: potatoes

Type of: root vegetable, solanaceous vegetable, starches, vine

Part of: genus Solanum, Solanum

Encyclopedia: Potato, sweet