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Sweet potato

noun

Pantropical vine widely cultivated in several varieties for its large sweet tuberous root with orange flesh. Synonyms: Ipomoea batatas, sweet potato vine.

The edible tuberous root of the sweet potato vine which is grown widely in warm regions of the United States.

Egg-shaped terra cotta wind instrument with a mouthpiece and finger holes. Synonym: ocarina.

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"Sweet potato" Quotes from Famous Books

... Common Paste Mince Pies Plum Pudding Lemon Pudding Orange Pudding Cocoa Nut Pudding Almond Pudding A Cheesecake Sweet Potato Pudding Pumpkin Pudding Gooseberry Pudding Baked Apple Pudding Fruit Pies Oyster Pie Beef Steak Pie Indian Pudding Batter Pudding Bread Pudding Rice Pudding Boston Pudding Fritters Fine Custards Plain Custards ...

— Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry Cakes, and Sweetmeats • Miss Leslie

... green vegetables, the best are peas, spinach, asparagus tips, string beans, stewed celery, young beets, or carrots, and squash. Baked sweet potato, turnips, boiled onions and cauliflower, all well cooked, may be given after the sixth or seventh year in ...

— The Care and Feeding of Children - A Catechism for the Use of Mothers and Children's Nurses • L. Emmett Holt

... requested him to let Mr. Corklan pass without let or hindrance through the Territories, and to render him every assistance "compatible with exigencies of the Service" in his "inquiries into sugar production from the sweet potato." ...

— The Keepers of the King's Peace • Edgar Wallace

... looks like a thick, or, if you please, a corpulent sweet potato, in shape, but is of a light purple color when boiled. When boiled it answers as a passable substitute for bread. The buck Kanakas bake it under ground, then mash it up well with a heavy lava pestle, mix water with it until it becomes a paste, set it ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... ask Nurse Jane Fuzzy-Wuzzy when I get home," declared Sammie. "Come on, let's go 'round by Farmer Tooker's cabbage patch. Maybe we can find a stump or two to gnaw. I'm getting hungry. Mr. Groundhog didn't give me enough sweet potato." ...

— Sammie and Susie Littletail • Howard R. Garis

Words linked to "Sweet potato" : wind instrument, morning glory, wind, yam, root vegetable