| potato yellow-dwarf virus | the virus that produces stunting and yellowing of the leaves of potato plants |
potato scab bacteria
Streptomyces scabies | cause of a potato disease characterized by brownish corky tissue |
Colorado potato beetle
Colorado beetle
potato bug
potato beetle
Leptinotarsa decemlineata | black-and-yellow beetle that feeds in adult and larval stages on potato leaves, originally of eastern Rocky Mountains, now worldwide |
| sweet-potato whitefly | a variety of whitefly |
potato moth
potato tuber moth
splitworm
Phthorimaea operculella | greyish-brown moth whose larva is the potato tuberworm |
potato tuberworm
Phthorimaea operculella | larva of potato moth, mines in leaves and stems of e.g. potatoes and tobacco |
tomato hornworm
potato worm
Manduca quinquemaculata | large green white-striped hawkmoth larva that feeds on tomato and potato plants, similar to tobacco hornworm |
ocarina
sweet potato | egg-shaped terra cotta wind instrument with a mouthpiece and finger holes |
| potato race | a novelty race in which competitors move potatoes from one place to another one at a time |
potato pancake
latke | made of grated potato and egg with a little flour |
potato
white potato
Irish potato
murphy
spud
tater | an edible tuber native to South America, a staple food of Ireland |
| baked potato | potato that has been cooked by baking it in an oven |
| jacket potato | a baked potato served with the jacket on |
| mashed potato | potato that has been peeled and boiled and then mashed |
potato skin
potato peel
potato peelings | crisp fried potato peeling |
| Uruguay potato | similar to the common potato |
| sweet potato | the edible tuberous root of the sweet potato vine which is grown widely in warm regions of the United States |
chip
crisp
potato chip
Saratoga chip | a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat |
groundnut
potato bean
wild bean | nutlike tuber, important food of Native Americans |
| potato salad | any of various salads having chopped potatoes as the base |
| couch potato | an idler who spends much time on a couch (usually watching television) |
pungapung
telingo potato
elephant yam
Amorphophallus paeonifolius
Amorphophallus campanulatus | putrid-smelling aroid of southeastern Asia (especially the Philippines) grown for its edible tuber |
giant sunflower
tall sunflower
Indian potato Helianthus giganteus | very tall American perennial of central and the eastern United States to Canada having edible tuberous roots |
air potato
Dioscorea bulbifera | yam of tropical Africa and Asia cultivated for it large tubers |
groundnut
groundnut vine
Indian potato potato bean
wild bean
Apios americana
Apios tuberosa | a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers, important food crop of Native Americans |
| yam bean potato bean Pachyrhizus tuberosus | twining plant of Amazon basin having large edible roots |
sweet potato
sweet potato vine
Ipomoea batatas | pantropical vine widely cultivated in several varieties for its large sweet tuberous root with orange flesh |
wild potato vine
wild sweet potato vine
man-of-the-earth manroot
scammonyroot
Ipomoea panurata
Ipomoea fastigiata | tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root, sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato |
Solanaceae
family Solanaceae
potato family | large and economically important family of herbs or shrubs or trees often strongly scented and sometimes narcotic or poisonous, includes the genera Solanum, Atropa, Brugmansia, Capsicum, Datura, Hyoscyamus, Lycopersicon, Nicotiana, Petunia, Physalis, and Solandra |
| potato tree Solanum crispum | hardy climbing shrub of Chile grown as an ornamental for its fragrant flowers, not a true potato |
Uruguay potato Uruguay potato vine
Solanum commersonii | South American potato vine |
wild potato
Solanum jamesii | erect or spreading perennial of southwestern United States and Mexico bearing small pale brown to creamolored tubers resembling potatoes |
| potato vine Solanum jasmoides | copiously branched vine of Brazil having deciduous leaves and white flowers tinged with blue |
potato
white potato
white potato vine
Solanum tuberosum | annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers, widely cultivated as a garden vegetable, vines are poisonous |
potato vine giant potato creeper
Solanum wendlandii | vine of Costa Rica sparsely armed with hooklike spines and having large lilac-blue flowers |
potato tree Brazilian potato tree
Solanum wrightii
Solanum macranthum | South American shrub or small tree widely cultivated in the tropics, not a true potato |
potato wart fungus
Synchytrium endobioticum | fungus causing potato wart disease in potato tubers |
potato fungus
Pellicularia filamentosa
Rhizoctinia solani | fungus causing a disease in potatoes characterized by black scurfy spots on the tubers |
| potato fern Solanopteris bifrons | small epiphytic fern of South America with tuberous swellings along rhizomes |
| potato fern Marattia salicina | large Australasian evergreen fern with an edible rhizome sometimes used as a vegetable by indigenous people |
| hot potato | a difficult situation, he dropped the topic like a hot potato |
potato blight
potato mold
potato disease
potato mildew
potato murrain | a blight of potatoes |
| potato mosaic | a disease of the leaves of potato plants |
little potato
rosette
russet scab
stem canker | rhizoctinia disease of potatoes |
| potato wart | fungous disease causing dark warty spongy excrescences in the eyes of potato tubers |
| sweet-potato ring rot | disease of sweet potatoes in which roots are girdled by rings of dry rot |
yellow dwarf of potato
potato yellow dwarf | the yellow dwarf disease of potato plants |
rhinophyma
hypertrophic rosacea
toper's nose
brandy nose
rum nose
rum-blossom
potato nose
hammer nose
copper nose | enlargement of the nose with dilation of follicles and redness and prominent vascularity of the skin, often associated with excessive consumption of alcohol |