A sweet potato is the orange root vegetable, sweeter than its plain cousin. Roast a sweet potato.
It is not related to the potato at all and belongs to the same family as bindweed. A sweet potato has more vitamin A than almost any other vegetable.
1phrasesweet potatoThe orange root vegetable, sweeter than its plain cousin.
“One sweet potato fed four people with something left over.”
sweet potato is a vegetable.
Sweet plus potato; the word potato came from Taino batata, which named this plant first.
From sweet + potato. Compare Dutch zoete pataat, zoete bataat (“sweet potato”), German Süßbatate (“sweet potato”), Swedish sötpotatis (“sweet potato”), Norwegian søtpotet (“sweet potato”), Faroese søtpotta (“sweet potato”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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