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BAKED POTATO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does baked potato mean? 

BAKED POTATO (noun)
  The noun BAKED POTATO has 1 sense:

1. potato that has been cooked by baking it in an ovenplay

  Familiarity information: BAKED POTATO used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BAKED POTATO (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Potato that has been cooked by baking it in an oven

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("baked potato" is a kind of...):

Irish potato; murphy; potato; spud; tater; white potato (an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "baked potato"):

jacket potato (a baked potato served with the jacket on)


 Context examples 


Astonishingly, three-toed sloths, which are more specialized to their environment, expend as little as 460 kilojoules of energy a day, the equivalent of burning a mere 110 calories — roughly the same number of calories in a baked potato.

(Putting the sloth in sloths: Arboreal lifestyle drives slow pace, NSF)



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