Definitions for potatoes

potatoes po·ta·to

Spelling: [puh-tey-toh, -tuh]
IPA: /pəˈteɪ toʊ, -tə/

Potatoes is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 237 anagrams from letters in potatoes (aeoopstt).

Definitions for potatoes

noun

  1. Also called Irish potato, white potato. the edible tuber of a cultivated plant, Solanum tuberosum, of the nightshade family.
  2. the plant itself.
  3. sweet potato (defs 1, 2).

Origin of potatoes

1545-55; Spanish patata white potato, variant of batata sweet potato Taino

Examples for potatoes

Cook the potatoes and onions in the water until they are soft.

On busier roads, elderly, scarved women sat by piles of potatoes and onions hoping forlornly for a sale.

However, that switch to potatoes occurred around the 19th Century.

(a) To what may the high food value of potatoes be attributed?

Mixing meat and dairy is a kosher rule-breaker, so they switched the cheese for potatoes.

They must serve for potatoes and they have to furnish our meat.

Then after the bog and the potatoes, came funerals and holidays innumerable.

I must have had lamb and potatoes 180 times since I have been here.

This is suitable for any meal at which potatoes would be served.

This breakfast is 100 percent chocolate all the way down to the potatoes.

Word Value for potatoes
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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