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sweetpotato

sweetpotato is the alternative form 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.

Forms of sweetpotato

pluralsweetpotatoes

Questions about sweetpotato

What is sweetpotato the alternative form of?
Sweetpotato is the alternative form of sweet potato.

Words near sweetpotato in the dictionary

  1. sweetnesses
  2. sweetnik
  3. sweetniks
  4. sweetpea
  5. sweetpeas
  6. sweetpotato
  7. sweetpotatoes
  8. sweetroot
  9. sweetroots
  10. sweets
  11. Sweetser

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