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potato

/puh-tey-toh, -tuh/US // pəˈteɪ toʊ, -tə //UK // (pəˈteɪtəʊ) //

马铃薯,马土豆,马薯,马马虎虎

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural po·ta·toes.

    • : Also called Irish potato, white potato. the edible tuber of a cultivated plant, Solanum tuberosum, of the nightshade family.
    • : the plant itself.
    • : sweet potato.

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Examples

  • The same court had already reversed a similar tax decision of hers, regarding Starbucks’ treatment by Dutch tax authorities, on similar grounds—but that was small potatoes compared with the flagship Apple-Ireland case.

  • He relays the story of her weekend diet consisting of “baked potatoes and caviar,” at once down-home and sophisticated.

  • Cover and repeat with remaining dough, potato, bacon, cheese, scallions, and 1 tablespoon sesame oil.

  • Picture a big russet potato next to a small fingerling potato, both grown in the same soil and containing the same total amount of iron.

  • For instance, a 50-year-old ultramarathoner might have a younger biological age than a 35-year-old couch potato.

  • Most of the vendors were, like this woman, honorary Jews for the night, not that Jews have a monopoly on potato pancakes.

  • Esther Choi of Mokbar said she has made Korean potato pancakes called gam ja jun, and Charles Rodriguez of PRINT.

  • She came to the Latke Festival because she loved any dish so based around the potato.

  • “I think as the ubiquity of French fries prove, everyone loves a crispy fried potato,” he said in an email.

  • More clumsily, fireworks stand in for the Big Bang and a potato and peas are invoked to explain relativity.

  • The Potato is planted very sparingly south of Piedmont, and not so commonly there as in Savoy.

  • Wheat gives place to Rye about the same time, and the Potato, at first comparatively rare, becomes universal.

  • The boy backed away from him, and stood a little distance off, holding out a nice, juicy potato this time.

  • His steps led him now not to the beach, but to the Cemetery of Rocklington, amid the potato-fields.

  • All at once there came running through the potato field a black and white dog.