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• potato root eelworm — noun also potato root nematode : golden nematode …   Useful english dictionary

• potato root nematode — noun see potato root eelworm …   Useful english dictionary

• Potato — Irish potato redirects here. For the confectionery, see Irish potato candy. For other uses, see Potato (disambiguation). Potato …   Wikipedia

• Potato cyst nematode — Taxobox name = Potato cyst nematode regnum = Animalia phylum = Nematoda classis = Secernentea subclassis = Diplogasteria ordo = Tylenchida superfamilia = Tylenchoidea familia = Heteroderidae subfamilia = Heteroderinae genus = Globodera genus… …   Wikipedia

• Potato (word) — Potato, which is the English term for Solanum tuberosum , is a Carib loanword. It was first borrowed by the guar, who used the word patata to describe the root crop Ipomoea batatas , or sweet potato, which was introduced to Spain by Columbus in… …   Wikipedia

• Root vegetable — Root vegetables are plant roots used as vegetables. [cite web url=http://www.askoxford.com/concise oed/root 1?view=uk title=AskOxford.com accessdate=2007 05 06] Other underground plants are often, erroneously, called root vegetables. Root… …   Wikipedia

• Potato starch — is starch extracted from potatoes. The cells of the root tubers of the potato plant contain starch grains (leucoplasts). To extract the starch, the potatoes are crushed; the starch grains are released from the destroyed cells. The starch is then… …   Wikipedia

• 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 which… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Potato beetle — 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

• Potato bug — 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