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sweet potato

8 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. sweet potato (noun)
  2. wild sweet potato (noun)
  3. sweet-potato beetle (noun)
  4. sweet-potato flea beetle (noun)
  5. sweet-potato hornworm (noun)
  6. sweet-potato scurf (noun)
  7. sweet-potato weevil (noun)
  8. sweet-potato worm (noun)

sweet potato

noun

Definition of SWEET POTATO

1
: a tropical vine (Ipomoea batatas) of the morning-glory family with variously shaped leaves and purplish flowers; also : its large thick sweet and nutritious tuberous root that is cooked and eaten as a vegetable — compare yam 2
2
: ocarina
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First Known Use of SWEET POTATO

1750

Rhymes with SWEET POTATO

couch potato, hot potato, new potato, plum tomato, seed potato, small potato

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