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Definition of Sweet potato

1. Noun. Pantropical vine widely cultivated in several varieties for its large sweet tuberous root with orange flesh.

2. Noun. The edible tuberous root of the sweet potato vine which is grown widely in warm regions of the United States.

3. Noun. Egg-shaped terra cotta wind instrument with a mouthpiece and finger holes.

Definition of Sweet potato

1. Noun. A tropical perennial American vine, ''Ipomoea batatas'', having a fleshy tuber. ¹

2. Noun. The tuber of this plant cooked as a vegetable. ¹

3. Noun. (American English) A yam; a tuber from the genus ''Dioscorea''. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sweet Potato

sweet melon vine sweet mother of Jesus sweet nothings sweet oil sweet oils sweet orange sweet orange tree sweet oranges sweet pea sweet peas

sweet pepper sweet pepper plant sweet pepperbush sweet peppers sweet pickle sweet potato (current term) sweet potato vine sweet potatoes sweet reseda sweet rocket

sweet roll sweet sand verbena sweet scabious sweet science sweet seventeen sweet shop sweet shrub sweet sixteens sweet sorghum

Literary usage of Sweet potato

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"The sweet potato crop amounts to fifty million bushels annually. Large quantities are grown in the Carolinas, Georgia, Texas, Alabama. ..."

2. Index of Economic Material in Documents of the States of the United States by Adelaide Rosalia Hasse (1912)
"sweet potato crop in Washington Co.; by J. Miles and TG Field. ... This sweet potato table Is given sometimes by Itselt sometimes with fruit crops, etc., ..."

3. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan by Asiatic Society of Japan (1888)
"ANALYSIS OF THE sweet potato, BW DWARS, EsQ. During the months of February and March of the present year three kinds of Satsuma Into, ..."

4. The Potato: A Compilation of Information from Every Available Source by Eugene H. Grubb, William Sumner Guilford (1912)
"As a commercial truck crop the sweet potato would be included among the five of greatest importance, ranking perhaps about third in the list. ..."

5. Fungous Diseases of Plants: With Chapters on Physiology, Culture Methods and by Benjamin Minge Duggar (1909)
"The black rot of the sweet potato is one of the most destructive diseases of this host, and it is known to occur from New Jersey southward practically ..."

6. Fungous Diseases of Plants: With Chapters on Physiology, Culture Methods and by Benjamin Minge Duggar (1909)
"HALSTED, BD Some Fungous Diseases of the sweet potato. ... The black rot of the sweet potato is one of the most destructive diseases of this host, ..."

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