potato, white potato, Irish potato, murphy, spud, tater

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

• baked potato — potato that has been cooked by baking it in an oven
• french fries, french-fried potatoes, fries — strips of potato fried in deep fat
• mashed potato — potato that has been peeled and boiled and then mashed
• Uruguay potato — similar to the common potato

• solanaceous vegetable — any of several fruits of plants of the family Solanaceae; especially of the genera Solanum; Capsicum; Lycopersicon
• root vegetable — any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers

• jacket — the outer skin of a potato

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