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sweet potatoes

sweet potatoes is the plural of sweet potato.

Meaning of sweet potato

Noun

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.
    • The sweet potato is the article referred to as potato by Shakespeare and other English writers, previous to the middle of the seventeenth century.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...
  3. An ocarina.

Questions about sweet potatoes

What is sweet potatoes the plural of?
Sweet potatoes is the plural of sweet potato.

Words near sweet potatoes in the dictionary

  1. sweet peppers
  2. sweet plum
  3. sweet plums
  4. sweet pole
  5. sweet potato
  6. sweet potatoes
  7. sweet rice
  8. sweet rice wine
  9. sweet rice wines
  10. sweet rush
  11. sweet rushes

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