Sweet Potatoes
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sweet potatoes — ➡ Thanksgiving * * * … Universalium
sweet potato — sweet potatoes N VAR Sweet potatoes are vegetables that look like large ordinary potatoes but taste sweet. They have pinkish brown skins and yellow flesh … English dictionary
sweet potato weevil — sweet potato weevil, a weevil whose larva feeds in the stems or roots of sweet potatoes and related plants … Useful english dictionary
Sweet potato — Camote redirects here. For the island group in the Philippines, see Camotes Islands. Sweet Potato Sweet potato in flower Hemingway, South Carolina Scientific classification … Wikipedia
sweet potato — Uala (for various kinds, see Haw. Eng. entry and entries that follow it). Sweet potato vine or slip, lau. Planted sweet potato vine, lau kanu. Collected sweet potato vines, puku kālina. Sweet potato sprouts, hāpu upu u, hā upu… … English-Hawaiian dictionary
sweet potato — 1. a plant, Ipomoea batatas, of the morning glory family, grown for its sweet, edible, tuberous roots. 2. the root itself, used as a vegetable. 3. Informal. ocarina. [1740 50, Amer.] * * * Food plant (Ipomoea batatas; family Convolvulaceae)… … Universalium
sweet — sweetly, adv. sweetness, n. /sweet/, adj., sweeter, sweetest, adv., n. adj. 1. having the taste or flavor characteristic of sugar, honey, etc. 2. producing the one of the four basic taste sensations that is not bitter, sour, or salt. 3. not… … Universalium
sweet potato — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms sweet potato : singular sweet potato plural sweet potatoes a vegetable with a slightly sweet taste that looks like a potato with pink skin … English dictionary
sweet potato — noun 1》 an edible tuber with pinkish orange slightly sweet flesh. 2》 the Central American climbing plant which yields sweet potatoes, widely cultivated in warm countries. [Ipomoea batatas.] … English new terms dictionary
sweet-potato ring rot — noun disease of sweet potatoes in which roots are girdled by rings of dry rot • Hypernyms: ↑plant disease … Useful english dictionary
