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# potato

«potato» in Mova's school dictionary: **a vegetable that grows under the ground; we eat it cooked** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (potato, potatoes)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A potato is a vegetable that grows under the ground; we eat it cooked. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/potato/#m1)

2) A couch potato is a person who sits watching TV a lot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/potato/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In maths: a thing counted, weighed or bought; potatoes in bags (kg or pounds); rows of potatoes planted. In science: a potato is a tuber, a swollen underground stem that stores food; potatoes can grow new plants from their «eyes». In everyday life: chips, fries, mashed potatoes, crisps. In history: the potato famine in Ireland.

### examples

- She peeled 8 potatoes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/potato/#x1)
- A bag holds 5 kg of potatoes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/potato/#x2)
- Each potato weighs 200 grams. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/potato/#x3)
- He planted 3 rows of potatoes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/potato/#x4)
- We had baked potatoes for dinner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/potato/#x5)
- Potatoes grow under the ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/potato/#x6)
- French fries are made from potatoes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/potato/#x7)
- A potato with green skin should not be eaten. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/potato/#x8)
- Don't be a couch potato, go outside and play! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/potato/#x9)
- She put a great potato into his hand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/potato/#x10)

### note

A thing counted or weighed. Plural is «potatoes». Trap: «kg of potatoes» counts weight, not the number of potatoes. Potato is a vegetable; botanically it is a stem, not a root. Safety: green parts and sprouts of potatoes are mildly poisonous; do not eat them raw.

### In the corpora

- [Not everything under the ground is a root, though: a potato is a swollen stem, and its eyes are buds.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/250-plants-deeper-roots-and-how-they-drink-hold-and-push/4/)
- [A potato is a swollen underground stem called a tuber, and its eyes are buds; a sweet potato really is a root.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/288-plants-we-eat-roots-stems-leaves-flowers-fruits-and-seeds/7/)
- [Green potatoes and potato sprouts contain a mild poison, so they should not be eaten.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/288-plants-we-eat-roots-stems-leaves-flowers-fruits-and-seeds/8/)
- [Before 1492 Italy had no tomatoes, Ireland had no potatoes and nobody in Europe had tasted chocolate or chilli.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe/1/)
- [In cartoons potatoes grow on trees and carrots wink from bushes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/338-the-vegetable-patch-peas-potatoes-tomatoes-and-slugs/3/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «potato» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/potato/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.