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wild sweet potato vine — noun tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root; sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato • Syn: ↑wild potato vine, ↑man of the earth, ↑manroot, ↑scammonyroot, ↑Ipomoea panurata, ↑Ipomoea… … 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 — noun 1. the edible tuberous root of the sweet potato vine which is grown widely in warm regions of the United States • Hypernyms: ↑root vegetable • Hyponyms: ↑yam • Part Holonyms: ↑sweet potato vine, ↑Ipomoea batatas 2. egg sha … Useful english dictionary
Sweet potato — Potato Po*ta to, n.; pl. {Potatoes}. [Sp. patata potato, batata sweet potato, from the native American name (probably batata) in Hayti.] (Bot.) (a) A plant ({Solanum tuberosum}) of the Nightshade family, and its esculent farinaceous tuber, of… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
wild potato vine — noun tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root; sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato • Syn: ↑wild sweet potato vine, ↑man of the earth, ↑manroot, ↑scammonyroot, ↑Ipomoea panurata,… … Useful english dictionary
sweet potato — batatinė dioskorėja statusas T sritis vardynas apibrėžtis Dioskorėjinių šeimos daržovinis, dekoratyvinis, krakmolinis, maistinis, vaistinis augalas (Dioscorea polystachya), paplitęs rytų Azijoje. atitikmenys: lot. Dioscorea batatas; Dioscorea… … Lithuanian dictionary (lietuvių žodynas)
sweet potato — (Roget s IV) n. Syn. batata (Haitian), patata (Spanish), Ipomoea batatas (Latin), potato, potato vine, yam; see also food , vegetable … English dictionary for students
sweet potato — sweet′ pota to n. 1) pln a Central American trailing vine, Ipomoea batatas, of the morning glory family, grown widely for its sweet tuberous roots 2) pln the root itself, used as a vegetable Compare yam 1) 3) mad ocarina • Etymology: 1740–50,… … From formal English to slang
sweet potato — noun Date: 1750 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.… … New Collegiate Dictionary
