sweet potato
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++ˌsweet poˈtato noun [countable]
DFa vegetable that looks like a red potato, is yellow inside, and tastes sweet 番薯,红薯,甘薯 → yam →5 see picture at 见图 vegetable1
Examples from the Corpus
sweet potato• This treat he produced by mashing a sweet potato to pulp and adding sugar, vanilla extract, and evaporated milk.• The rest of the Brownies are sweet potato plants and they crouch in rows, making themselves as small as they can.ˌsweet poˈtato nounChineseSyllable
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sweet potato
ˌsweet poˈtato
noun [countable]

a vegetable that looks like a red potato, is yellow inside, and tastes sweet ⇨ yam
ˌsweet poˈtato
noun [countable]
a vegetable that looks like a red potato, is yellow inside, and tastes sweet ⇨ yam
