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Word entry · 6 letters

potato

Best crossword clue

"Mashed dinner side"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /pəˈteɪ.təʊ/Part of speech nounSorted aoopttStarts with PEnds with O5 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Starchy tuber eaten as a vegetable

Word origin

Borrowed from Spanish patata, itself borrowed from Taíno batata (“sweet potato”).

Used in a sentence

  • “Do not let your child have potato for another year; he will probably take milk well enough after he is weaned.”
  • “The protein value of this dish is equal to that of 1⅛ pounds of potato and beef, the fuel value, however, being much in excess of these.”
  • “A number of the children said that they had potato for breakfast, potato and herring for dinner, potato and milk for supper.”

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer5 curated clues

01“Mashed dinner side”6 letters
02“Mashed vegetable”6 letters
03“Starchy tuber”6 letters
04“Underground food tuber”6 letters
05“Common root vegetable”6 letters

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