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noun (pl=potatoes)
  1. A plant tuber, Solanum tuberosum, eaten as a starchy vegetable, particularly in the Americas and Europe.
Translations: 
  • Dutch: aardappel , pieper , patat
  • French: pomme de terre , patate
  • German: Kartoffel , Erdapfel (Southern Germany, Switzerland, Austria)
  • Italian: patata
  • Spanish: papa (italbrac, Latin America, Southern Spain and Canary Islands), patata (italbrac, Mexico and Spain standard usage)
Etymology: From Taino batata, meaning sweet potato, via Spanish patata. Not from a hypothetical Nahuatl word
  • potatl.



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