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sweet_potato

sweet potato

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Noun

sweet potatoes (the sweet potato on the far right is peeled)

sweet potato (plural sweet potatoes)

  1. A tropical perennial American vine, Ipomoea batatas, having a fleshy tuber.
  2. The tuber of this plant cooked as a vegetable.

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See also

  • (tuber): yam (US) (the moist-fleshed sweet potato).

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