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hog potato

hog potato noun: any species or cultivar of potato or sweet potato so disagreeable in taste and/or small that it is preferedly employed to feed pigs.

Noun

hog potato (plural hog potatoes)

  1. (chiefly New World) Any species or cultivar of potato or sweet potato so disagreeable in taste and/or small that it is preferedly employed to feed pigs.
  2. (US, archaic) Toxicoscordion venenosum (formerly Zigadenus venosus)
    Synonyms:
    death camas

Synonyms of hog potato

Forms of hog potato

pluralhog potatoes
alternative formhog potatoe
alternative formhog-potato
alternative formhog-potatoe
alternative formhog's potato

Questions about hog potato

What does hog potato mean?
Hog potato means any species or cultivar of potato or sweet potato so disagreeable in taste and/or small that it is preferedly employed to feed pigs.
What part of speech is hog potato?
Hog potato is a noun.
What is the plural of hog potato?
The plural of hog potato is hog potatoes.

Words near hog potato in the dictionary

  1. hog peanut
  2. hog peanuts
  3. hog plague
  4. hog plum
  5. hog plums
  6. hog potato
  7. hog potatoes
  8. hog pox
  9. hog reeve
  10. hog reeves
  11. hog rifle

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