sweet potato

plural sweet potatoes · alternative sweetpotato

1. countableuncountableA tropical perennial American vine, Ipomoea batatas, having a fleshy tuber.

   Synonyms: batata, Ipomoea, kumara, kumera

2. countableuncountableThe tuber of this plant cooked as a vegetable.

   I go back to the kitchen and find a knife, still smeared with sweet potato and bits of pheasant meat.

   2013, Sherri L. Smith, chapter 12, in Orleans, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, part 2 (Freesteader), page 116

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   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 Healthful Cookery, and a Large Number of Original, Palatable, and Wholesome Recipes, Revised edition, Michigan: Health Publishing Company, page 239

3. countableuncountableAn ocarina.