irish potato

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

   Synonymspotatowhite potatomurphyspudtater

   Broaderroot vegetablestarchessolanaceous vegetable

   Narrowerbaked potatofrench frieshome friesmashed potatoUruguay potato

   Part ofpotato

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Questions about irish potato

What does irish potato mean?

irish potato means "an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland".

What is another word for irish potato?

Close synonyms include potato, white potato, murphy, spud, tater. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is irish potato a common word?

irish potato is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.