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- Potato - n. - A plant (Solanum tuberosum) of the Nightshade family, and its esculent farinaceous tuber, of which there are numerous varieties used for food. It is native of South America, but a form of the species is found native as far north as New Mexico.
- Potato - n. - The sweet potato (see below).
- Potatoes - pl. - of Potato
- Potator - n. - A drinker.
- Potatory - a. - Of or pertaining to drinking.
- Solanine - n. - A poisonous alkaloid glucoside extracted from the berries of common nightshade (Solanum nigrum), and of bittersweet, and from potato sprouts, as a white crystalline substance having an acrid, burning taste; -- called also solonia, and solanina.
- Doryphora - n. - A genus of plant-eating beetles, including the potato beetle. See Potato beetle.
- Colorado beetle - - A yellowish beetle (Doryphora decemlineata), with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. See Potato beetle.
- Casserole - n. - A mold (in the shape of a hollow vessel or incasement) of boiled rice, mashed potato or paste, baked, and afterwards filled with vegetables or meat.
- Solanum - n. - A genus of plants comprehending the potato (S. tuberosum), the eggplant (S. melongena, and several hundred other species; nightshade.
- Fusel oil - - A hot, acrid, oily liquid, accompanying many alcoholic liquors (as potato whisky, corn whisky, etc.), as an undesirable ingredient, and consisting of several of the higher alcohols and compound ethers, but particularly of amyl alcohol; hence, specifically applied to amyl alcohol.
- Batata - n. - An aboriginal American name for the sweet potato (Ipomaea batatas).
- Potato - n. - The sweet potato (see below).
- Tuber - n. - A fleshy, rounded stem or root, usually containing starchy matter, as the potato or arrowroot; a thickened root-stock. See Illust. of Tuberous.
- Roast - v. t. - To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.; as, to roast a potato in ashes.