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sweet potato

noun

  1. a plant, Ipomoea batatas, of the morning glory family, grown for its sweet, edible, tuberous roots.
  2. the root itself, used as a vegetable.
  3. Informal. ocarina.


sweet potato

noun

  1. a convolvulaceous twining plant, Ipomoea batatas, of tropical America, cultivated in the tropics for its edible fleshy yellow root
  2. the root of this plant


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Word History and Origins

Origin of sweet potato1

An Americanism dating back to 1740–50

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Example Sentences

When was the last time you heard of someone with a sweet potato, broccoli, or blueberry intolerance?

That's a big basket of sweet potato chips you're looking at.

The sweet potato fries (actually roasted) and eggplant pizza were perfectly prepared.

The net result was about four pounds of sweet potato chips in barely more than the time it took to heat the oil.

Here Mata did the family washing; dried daikon in winter, and sweet-potato slices in the summer sun.

Twisting the precious necks of half a dozen, we left them to die in the grass while we pierced the side of a sweet-potato mound.

The boiled sweet potato is, however, a most excellent article.

The asparagus or sweet potato stem occasionally broadens out into a ribbon, and it passes as an abnormity.

Melt fat in a frying pan, add the halves of sweet potato, and fry until slightly brown.

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