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.

Meanings

nounhog potato (plural hog potatoes)

plural hog potatoes · alternative hog potatoe · alternative hog-potato · alternative hog-potatoe · alternative hog's potato

  1. chiefly New WorldAny species or cultivar of potato or sweet potato so disagreeable in taste and/or small that it is preferedly employed to feed pigs.
  2. USarchaicToxicoscordion venenosum (formerly Zigadenus venosus)

    Synonyms: death camas

Synonyms & antonyms

nounToxicoscordion venenosum (formerly Zigadenus venosus)

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Chicago

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