Spanish potato

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Spanish potato (plural Spanish potatoes)

  1. (obsolete) sweet potato
    • 1884, Henry Nicholson Ellacombe, The Plant-lore & Garden-craft of Shakespeare:
      Gerard grew them in 1597, but only as curiosities, under the name of Virginian Potatoes (Battata Virginianorum and Pappas), to distinguish them from the Spanish Potato, or Convolvulus Battatas

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