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sweet potato

 
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–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.
Origin:
1740–50, Americanism
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oc⋅a⋅ri⋅na

  [ok-uh-ree-nuh]
–noun
a simple musical wind instrument shaped somewhat like an elongated egg with a mouthpiece and finger holes.
Also called sweet potato.

Origin:
< It, orig. dial. (Emilia), dim. of oca goose (< LL auca, contr. of *avica, deriv. of L avis bird), so called from the instrument's shape; appar. the name given to it by Giuseppe Donati of Budrio, near Bologna, who popularized a ceramic version c1860

Related forms:
oc⋅a⋅ri⋅nist, noun
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sweet potato  
n.  

    1. A tropical American vine (Ipomoea batatas) having rose-violet or pale pink, funnel-shaped flowers, and cultivated for its fleshy tuberous orange root.

    2. The root of this vine, eaten cooked as a vegetable. Also called regionally yam.

  2. Informal An ocarina.

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