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A sweet potato is neither as it is actually a spanish baby, cooked in rhino feces until hard! thanks babe
A sweet potato
tapas de camote.
From Spanish patata, although the Spanish probably got the word from South American languages. In fact, the Spanish themselves consider patata to be a compound of the Taino batata(sweet potato) and the Quechua papa(potato).
Batata is a vegetable. It's like a sweet potato and it's yellow-orange. In Spain we say boniato.
The word potato is from Spanish patata, from the word batata in the Taino native dialect of the Americas, which meant "sweet potato."The standard potato, Solanum tuberosum, was originally cultivated in Chile and Peru, and discovered there by the Spanish conquistafors in the early 1500's. From there, it was transplanted to Europe and to North America.First attest in 1565, from Spanish patata, from Carib (Haiti) batata "sweet potato."1565, from the Spanish patata (white potato), from Taino batata (sweet potato).In the mid 16th century it came from the Spanish patata, its a variant of Taino batata 'sweet potato'. The English word originally denoted the sweet potato and gained its current sense in the late 16th century.
The Spanish word for "sweet potato" is "batata", but is more commonly called a "camote" (cah-MOH-teh). "Sweet potato pie" is "pastel de camote" or "pastel de batata".
no a sweet potato is a tubers
Sweet potato is a fibrous root because the potato itself is the root.
sweet potato
On a sweet potato slip or plant, there are two simple parts: the roots and the bud or the green part that grows above ground. The roots are obvious.
root