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sweet potato

sweet po·ta·to (plural sweet po·ta·toes or sweet po·ta·to)


noun 
Definition:
 
1. root used as vegetable: a fleshy orange root cooked and eaten as a vegetable

2. plant producing fleshy edible tubers: a vine that produces sweet potatoes. Flowers: funnel-shaped, purplish. Native to: tropical America.  Latin name Ipomoea batatas.

3. U.S.  ( informal )
Same as  ocarina


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