English Explanatory Dictionary

sweet potato

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A tropical perennial American vine, Ipomoea batatas, having a fleshy tuber.
  2. The tuber of this plant cooked as a vegetable.
  3. An ocarina.

Pronunciation

/ˈswiːt pəˈteɪ.təʊ/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-sweet potato.wav /ˈswit pəˈteɪ.toʊ/

Word forms

sweet potato sweet potatoes sweetpotato

Synonyms

yam camote kumara kumera batata Ipomoea

Related words

yam

Derived words

Cuban sweet potato Japanese sweet potato Okinawan sweet potato sweet-potatoey sweet-potato ring rot sweet potato vine sweet-potato whitefly tropical sweet potato white-fleshed sweet potato white sweet potatoe wild sweet potato

Translations

Arabic: بَطَاطَا حُلْوَة Arabic: بَطَاطَا Arabic: بَطَاطَة Arabic: بطاطة Arabic: بطاطا حلوة Armenian: բատատ Armenian: քաղցր կարտոֆիլ Assamese: মিঠা আলু Atayal: ngahi Aymara: apichu Basque: patata gozoa Belarusian: бата́т Belarusian: сало́дкая бу́льба Bengali: মিষ্টি আলু Central Bikol: kamote Bislama: kumala Bouyei: sez Bouyei: legsez Bulgarian: сла́дък карто́ф Bulgarian: бата́т Burmese: ကန်စွန်းဥ Catalan: batata Catalan: moniato Cherokee: ᏄᎾ ᎤᏂᎦᎾᏍᏓ Cheyenne: ho'enoo'o Chinese Cantonese: 番薯 Chinese: han-chî Chinese Mandarin: 甘薯 Chinese Mandarin: 白薯 Chinese Mandarin: 紅薯 /红薯 Chinese Mandarin: 番薯 Chinese Mandarin: 山芋 Chinese Mandarin: 番芋 Chinese Mandarin: 地瓜 Chinese Mandarin: 紅苕 /红苕 Chinese Mandarin: 線苕 /线苕 Chinese Mandarin: 金薯 Chinese Mandarin: 甜薯 Chinese Mandarin: 朱薯 Czech: sladká brambora Czech: batát Danish: sød kartoffel Danish: sødkartoffel Danish: batat Central Dusun: woi Dutch: zoete aardappel Dutch: bataat East Frisian Low German: söyttuffel Esperanto: batato Estonian: bataat Faroese: søtur epli Fijian: kumala Finnish: bataatti French: patate douce French: patate French: patate sucrée Galician: pataca doce Georgian: ბატატი Georgian: ტკბილი კარტოფილი German: Süßkartoffel Greek: γλυκοπατάτα Mbya Guarani: jety Gujarati: શકરિયું Haitian Creole: patat Hawaiian: ʻuala Hebrew: בָּטָטָה Hindi: शकरकन्द
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on S Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary