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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.
- Potato - n. - The sweet potato (see below).
- 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.
- 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.
- Solanum - n. - A genus of plants comprehending the potato (S. tuberosum), the eggplant (S. melongena, and several hundred other species; nightshade.
- Roast - v. t. - To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.; as, to roast a potato in ashes.
- 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.
- 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.
- Batata - n. - An aboriginal American name for the sweet potato (Ipomaea batatas).
- 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.