Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A tropical American vine (Ipomoea batatas) having rose-violet or pale pink, funnel-shaped flowers, and cultivated for its fleshy tuberous orange root.
- n. The root of this vine, eaten cooked as a vegetable. Also called regionally yam.
- n. Informal An ocarina.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See sweet potato, under potato.
Wiktionary
- n. A tropical perennial American vine, Ipomoea batatas, having a fleshy tuber.
- n. The tuber of this plant cooked as a vegetable.
- n. US A yam; a tuber from the genus Dioscorea.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) a climbing plant (Ipomœa Balatas) allied to the morning-glory. Its farinaceous tubers have a sweetish taste, and are used, when cooked, for food. It is probably a native of Brazil, but is cultivated extensively in the warmer parts of every continent, and even as far north as New Jersey. The name
potato was applied to this plant before it was to the Solanum tuberosum, and this is the “potato” of the Southern United States. - adj. (Bot.) See under Potato.
WordNet 3.0
- n. egg-shaped terra cotta wind instrument with a mouthpiece and finger holes
- n. pantropical vine widely cultivated in several varieties for its large sweet tuberous root with orange flesh
- n. the edible tuberous root of the sweet potato vine which is grown widely in warm regions of the United States
Examples
“The mama-san sets a plate of cold soybean pods between us and returns with two tall glasses of chuhai, a cocktail of sweet potato liquor that goes down as easy as lemonade.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sweet potato’.
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Behold, The Potato
All things potato. History, foodways and potato recipe names, cultivar or variety names, farming, production, diseases and pests, folklore.
spud, tater, starchy, tuberous, <i>Solanum tubero..., <i>Phytophthora i..., potato blight, late blight, blight, Ireland, Irish potato, lumper and 331 more...
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
abridgement (abri..., accoutrement, accoutre, acknowledgement (..., opposite, advert, adaptor, adapter, sticking plaster, advertise, adviser (advisor ..., adze, aesthete and 1196 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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ENVI - Collocations RS
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Noodles: Slurp 'em up!
Noodles and noodle types from around the world.
Who's hungry?wheat, udon, tea, sweet potato, soba, Sevian, rice vermicelli, rice stick, rice sheet, rice, quenelle, potato and 23 more...
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Things from my memory
nigger baby, mexican jumping bean, puddle jumper, mood ring, pet rock, cat scratch fever, taxman, hippie, vaseline, argyrol, mercurchrome, methiolade and 655 more...
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Nigella Bites
words from the cookbook "Nigella Bites" by Nigella Lawson
intend, evangelical, present, nattering space, inevitably, consequently, techniques, liqueur, purist, frankly, constraints, jot and 256 more...
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cloudtrail's Good Eats
whole milk, tea, bread, honey, butter, jam, meatloaf, shortbread, cranberry juice, baked apples, gingersnaps, lentil soup and 12 more...
Tweets
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bilby
There was just one sweet potato.
He was golden brown and slim.
The lady loved his dancing,
The lady loved his dancing,
The lady loved his dancing,
She danced all night with him.
Alas, he wasn't Irish.
- Vachel Lindsay, 'The Potatoes Dance'. Nov 16, 2008
johnmperry also a name for ocarina Jul 15, 2008
gangerh Truly delicious cooked and served as a 'budin de camote', a mouthwatering Mexican dish. Feb 11, 2008
treeseed The sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas), commonly called a yam in parts of the United States (especially in the southern and western portions of the country; this terminology causes some confusion with true yams), is a crop plant whose large, starchy, sweet tasting tuberous roots are an important root vegetable. The young leaves and shoots are sometimes eaten as greens. The sweet potato is only distantly related to the potato (Solanum tuberosum). It is even more distantly related to the true yam (Dioscorea species) which is native to Africa and Asia. Thus, a sweet potato and a yam are in fact different foods.
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A term of endearment that I call my grandson. Feb 11, 2008