sweet potato

sweet potato

n.

1.

a. A tropical American vine (Ipomoea batatas) having rose-violet or pale pink, funnel-shaped flowers, and cultivated for its fleshy tuberous orange root.

b. The root of this vine, eaten cooked as a vegetable. Also called regionally yam.

2. Informal An ocarina.

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sweet potato

Noun

a root vegetable, grown in the tropics, with pinkish-brown skin and yellow flesh

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	sweet potato - pantropical vine widely cultivated in several varieties for its large sweet tuberous root with orange flesh Ipomoea batatas, sweet potato vine sweet potato - the edible tuberous root of the sweet potato vine which is grown widely in warm regions of the United States morning glory - any of various twining vines having funnel-shaped flowers that close late in the day
	2.	sweet potato - the edible tuberous root of the sweet potato vine which is grown widely in warm regions of the United States root vegetable - any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers yam - sweet potato with deep orange flesh that remains moist when baked Ipomoea batatas, sweet potato, sweet potato vine - pantropical vine widely cultivated in several varieties for its large sweet tuberous root with orange flesh
	3.	sweet potato - egg-shaped terra cotta wind instrument with a mouthpiece and finger holes ocarina wind instrument, wind - a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath

Translations

sweet potato n → batata, camote m (LAM)

sweet potato n → patate douce

sweet potato sweet n → Süßkartoffel f, Batate f

sweet potato n → patata americana, patata dolce