Definitions
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- adjective Resembling a
potato or some aspect of one.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Now the women at the table had spent many hours pounding the potatolike taro root and cooking their delicious poi; the men had worked hard at their harvest.
Archive 2008-02-01 Jan 2008
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Loor fixed us a delicious dinner of bread, fruit, and some tasty potatolike vegetable.
The Rivers of Zadaa D. J. MacHale 2005
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Loor fixed us a delicious dinner of bread, fruit, and some tasty potatolike vegetable.
The Rivers of Zadaa D. J. MacHale 2005
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Against the gray of her velvet robes, her potatolike face looked pallid and boiled with shock.
The Silent Tower Hambly, Barbara 1986
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In the immediate vicinity were also nuts, high-bush cranberries, bearberries, hard small apples, starchy potatolike roots, and edible ferns.
The Clan of the Cave Bear Auel, Jean M. 1980
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Heaps of wild yams, white starchy breadroots, and potatolike groundnuts boiled gently in skin pots slung over fires.
The Clan of the Cave Bear Auel, Jean M. 1980
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