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Noun: white potato  wIt pu'tey-tow
Usage: US
  1. An edible tuber native to South America
    "They planted Murphy white potatoes in their garden";
    - potato, 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 white potato plants produced a bumper crop this year"; "The white potato vine produced a bumper crop this year";
    - potato, white potato vine, Solanum tuberosum

Derived forms: white potatoes

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

Part of: genus Solanum, Solanum

Encyclopedia: White potato