a round white vegetable with a brown or red skin that grows underground as the root of a plant also called a potato 马铃薯;土豆;洋芋 Will you peel the potatoes for me? 你给我削土豆皮好不好? baked/roast/fried potatoes 烤/烤/炸土豆 potato salad 土豆色拉 leek and potato soup 韭葱土豆汤。
Extra ExamplesTopics Fooda1a plate of fried potato skins 一盘油炸土豆皮 baked potatoes with sour cream and chives 酸奶油香葱烤土豆 potatoes baked in their jackets 带皮烤的土豆
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- baking
- new
- sweet
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- sack
- eat
- have
- peel
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- chip
- crisp
- pancake
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Word Originmid 16th cent.: from Spanish patata, variant of Taino batata ‘sweet potato’. The English word originally denoted the sweet potato and gained its current sense in the late 16th cent.