Word Finder - potatoes

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The tuber of a plant, Solanum tuberosum, eaten as a starchy vegetable, particularly in the Americas and Europe; this plant.

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A conspicuous hole in a sock or stocking

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A camera that takes poor-quality pictures.

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A mentally handicapped person.

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An underpowered computer or other device, especially when small in size.

The potatoes were ruined.

Katie piled the potatoes in another pan and picked it up, along with the knife and a bag of peals.

Carmen grabbed a napkin and began wiping the mashed potatoes from her hand.

Later, as she was straining the water from the potatoes, Cade wandered in.

The carrots and potatoes packed around it were the perfect consistency.

Then he put a few chunks of carrots and potatoes on the plate.

Using instant potatoes she managed to make a passable potato salad and opened a can of baked beans.

We sat down and had ham, potatoes, and vegetables.

She put a lid on the pan of potatoes and turned to him.

Sweet potatoes, white potatoes and onions also are important crops.

Potatoes, cabbage and lettuce are much grown for the early Northern markets.

His attention never wavered and Carmen kept her expression bland as she slapped the potatoes on her plate and then returned the spoon to the bowl.

She poured gravy over her mashed potatoes.

Early potatoes and other vegetables (primeurs) are largely cultivated in the districts bordering the English Channel.

Katie stood and carried the pan of potatoes to the sink.

He paused, taking a bite of the sweet potatoes, chewing them and then swallowing before continuing.

The chief grain crops are oats, rye and wheat, and the cultivation of potatoes is general.

Aube is an agricultural department; more than one-third of its surface consists of arable land of which the chief products are wheat and oats, and next to them rye, barley and potatoes; vegetables are extensively cultivated in the valleys of the Seine and the Aube.

The scab of potatoes is another case in point.

The principal crops are potatoes, rye and oats, but wheat and barley are grown in the more fertile districts; tobacco, flax, hops and beetroot are also cultivated.

The imports of potatoes into the United Kingdom vary, to some extent inversely; thus, the low production in 1897 was accompanied by an increase of imports from 3,921,205 cwt.

The system will see that just the right amounts of black-eyed peas, potatoes, and corn are grown.

Alex captured her hand and forced her to drop the potatoes.

Carmen sat Destiny on the floor and picked up the pan of pealed potatoes, along with a paring knife.

She twisted her fork in her mashed potatoes.

In 1909 in the amount of barley per acre (38 bushels) Nevada ranked third, and in the average farm price per bushel ($0.75) ranked first among the barley-producing states of the country, but in the total amount produced (304,000 bushels) held only the twenty-second place; and in the same year the average yield of potatoes per acre in Nevada was 180 bushels, exceeded in two states - the average for the entire country was 106.8 bushels per acre - but the total crop in Nevada (540,000 bushels) was smaller than in any state or Territory of the Union, except New Mexico.

Potatoes and turnips are recommended to be sown in the yard (kitchen-garden).

Great quantities of early potatoes and vegetables, together with flowers and fish, are sent to London and elsewhere.

Potatoes and mangels yield good crops.

Serve with mashed sweet potatoes and green beans, if desired.

Katie sighed as she rinsed the potatoes.

He leaned against the wall, sipping his coffee silently as he watched her mash the potatoes.

He sat down in his chair without assisting her and picked up the bowl of mashed potatoes.

Now, would you pass me those mashed potatoes?

Jonathan grinned and handed him the potatoes.

She spoke as she turned the potatoes.

Other important crops grown are - maize, 324,000 acres; oats, 493,000 acres; other grains, 160,000 acres; hay, 1,367,000 acres; potatoes, 119,000 acres; sugar-cane, 141,000 acres; vines, 65,000 acres; and other crops, 422,000 acres.

Oats and potatoes are the crops most extensively cultivated.

Scotland possesses nearly one-third of the area of oats and nearly one-fourth of that of potatoes.

The cereal crops (wheat, barley, oats, rye, maize); the cruciferous crops (turnips, cabbage, kale, rape, mustard); the solanaceous crops (potatoes); the chenopodiaceous crops (mangels, sugar-beets), and other non-leguminous crops have, so far as is known, no such power, and are therefore more or less benefited by the direct application of nitrogenous manures.

There is a great variety of produce, but the principal crops are Indian corn, wheat, oats, hay, potatoes, apples and tobacco.

The principal crops are wheat, rye, oats, barley, maize, hemp, flax, potatoes, beetroot and tobacco.

In 1907-8, according to the state Department of Agriculture, the total value of all field crops (cotton, cereals, sugar-cane, hay and forage, sweet potatoes, &c.) was $11,856,340, and the total value of all farm products (including live stock, $20,817,804, poultry and products, $1,688,433, and dairy products, $1,728,642) was $46,371,320.

The principal products are corn, oats, barley, potatoes, rye, beetroot, hemp, flax, hay and other fodder.

Cotton, Indian corn, sweet potatoes, yams and rice are small crops.

About one-sixth of the total area is under cultivation, oats and barley being the chief grain, and potatoes (introduced in 1730) and turnips (1807) the chief green crops.

The principal crops are rye, oats, barley, buckwheat, potatoes, though wheat, beetroot, flax, hemp and tobacco are also grown.

White and sweet potatoes, yams, sweet and bitter yuccas, sago and okra, may also be mentioned.

During the two years of his residence in Walden woods he lived by the exercise of a little surveying, a little job-work and the tillage of a few acres of ground which produced him his beans and potatoes.

It is not a commercial town, and its only noteworthy manufacture is the " clay dumplings " which are eaten with potatoes by the inhabitants of the Bolivian uplands.