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sweet potato

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sweet potatoes (the sweet potato on the far right is peeled)

sweet potato (countable and uncountable, plural sweet potatoes)

  1. A tropical perennial American vine, Ipomoea batatas, having a fleshy tuber.
  2. The tuber of this plant cooked as a vegetable.
    • 1892, Ella Eaton Kellogg, “Vegetables”, in Science in the Kitchen: A Scientific Treatise on Food Substances and Their Dietetic Properties, Together with a Practical Explanation of the Principles of Healthful Cookery, and a Large Number of Original, Palatable, and Wholesome Recipes[1], Revised edition, Michigan: Health Publishing Company, page 239:
      The sweet potato is the article referred to as potato by Shakespeare and other English writers, previous to the middle of the seventeenth century.
    • 2013, Sherri L. Smith, chapter 12, in Orleans, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, part 2 (Freesteader), page 116:
      I go back to the kitchen and find a knife, still smeared with sweet potato and bits of pheasant meat.
  3. An ocarina.

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  • (tuber): yam (US) (the moist-fleshed sweet potato)

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