IRISH POTATO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Irish potato mean? 

• IRISH POTATO (noun)
  The noun IRISH POTATO has 1 sense:

1. an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• IRISH POTATO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

Irish potato; murphy; potato; spud; tater; white potato

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

starches (foodstuff rich in natural starch (especially potatoes, rice, bread))

solanaceous vegetable (any of several fruits of plants of the family Solanaceae; especially of the genera Solanum, Capsicum, and Lycopersicon)

root vegetable (any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers)

Meronyms (parts of "Irish potato"):

jacket (the outer skin of a potato)

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

baked potato (potato that has been cooked by baking it in an oven)

chips; french-fried potatoes; french fries; fries (strips of potato fried in deep fat)

home-fried potatoes; home fries (sliced pieces of potato fried in a pan until brown and crisp)

mashed potato (potato that has been peeled and boiled and then mashed)

Uruguay potato (similar to the common potato)

Holonyms ("Irish potato" is a part of...):

potato; Solanum tuberosum; white potato; white potato vine (annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers; widely cultivated as a garden vegetable; vines are poisonous)

 Context examples 

GM potatoes are also resistant to late blight disease which caused the Irish potato famine in the 1840s and which continues to threaten potato crops worldwide.

(GM tech expands with more crops to more countries, SciDev.Net)