potato

potato — noun

1. an underground tuber, usually round or oval, that people cook and eat, or the gr

1.名詞A1
釋義

an underground tuber, usually round or oval, that people cook and eat, or the green plant that produces it

例句

Lena baked a potato and ate it with butter.

bake a potato

Three potatoes lay in the basket beside the kitchen door.

plural countable use

同義詞
  • vegetable

    a broader everyday word; a potato is one kind of vegetable

  • tuber

    a more technical word, often used in science or farming

  • spud

    an informal word for potato, especially in everyday speech

文法句型

bake a potato

grow potatoes

potato plant

用法筆記

Most everyday uses are countable: a potato, two potatoes. When you mean the plant rather than the food, English often says potato plant to make that meaning clear.

常見錯誤

❌I bought potato for dinner.
✅I bought a potato for dinner.
💡Use a when you mean one whole potato.