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单词 potato root
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potato rootn.

Brit. /pəˈteɪtəʊ ˌruːt/, U.S. /pəˈteɪdoʊ ˌrʊt/, /pəˈteɪdoʊ ˌrut/
Forms: see potato n. and root n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: potato n., root n.1
Etymology: < potato n. + root n.1
1. The tuber or plant of a potato or sweet potato. Now rare.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > potato
potato root1583
pratie1749
Murphy1750
tater1759
pomme de terre1776
Irish apricot1785
tatie1788
tattiec1800
spud1845
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > sweet potato
batata1577
potato root1583
red batata1696
sweet potato1750
yam1753
kumara1773
camote1842
Carolina1884
1583 G. Peckham True Rep. Newfound Landes v. sig. E.ivv. There is also a kind of graine called Maize, Potato rootes, and sundry other fruites naturall growing there.
1594 Huswifes Handmaide for Kitchin 32 A Potaton roote well pared.
1620 T. Venner Via Recta vii. 137 Potato-roots are of a temperate quality.
1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xxiii. 226 Potado-roots are now so common and known amongst us, that even the husbandman buyes them to please his wife.
1663 in R. Boyle Corr. (2001) II. 72 I have according to your desire sent A box of potato-rootes my ceare hath been to make choice of such that are fitt to sett without cutting.
1731 R. Bradley New Improvem. Planting & Gardening (ed. 6) vii. 167 Tuberous Roots are such as are form'd of Tubers or Knobs... The Potato Root is a tuberous Root.
1829 Times 28 Oct. 2/5 The potato root..ought not to be permitted to usurp dominion over the fairest productions of our soil.
1854 G. E. Waring Elem. Agric. vii. 52 What is the principal constituent of the potato root?
1891 Harper's Mag. July 220/1 Oddly enough, the British do not say potato root or carrot root when they order either of those esculents to be cooked.
2005 www.zyra.org.uk 23 Sept. (O.E.D. Archive) Smiths Crisps—fine cross-sectional pieces of the potato root vegetable roasted, flavoured and packed in hermetically sealed polymer.
2. The root of a potato plant.
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1897 Westm. Gaz. 16 Dec. 12/2 To graft the tomato on the potato stalk... He never grew such fine potatoes as with tomato-tops, nor such fine tomatoes as with potato roots.
1939 I. E. Melhus Elem. Plant Pathol. viii. 154 (caption) Cross section of infested potato roots showing Spongospora subterranea in the infected portion of the root.
1982 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 4 July ii. 3 The nematodes attack potato roots and lessen yields.
2005 Western Morning News (Plymouth) (Nexis) 18 May 10 A seminar and practical demonstration..on soil structure and identifying soil compaction issues which can result in poor potato-root growth.

Compounds

potato root eelworm n. = potato cyst nematode n. at potato n. Compounds 2.
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1942 Ann. Appl. Biol. 29 109 (title) Investigations on potato root eelworm, Heterodera rostochiensis Wollenweber. On the cyst population of a field over a series of years.
1968 J. A. Clegg & J. D. Smyth in M. Florkin & B. T. Scheer Chem. Zool. II. iii. v. 403 An analogous situation occurs in the potato-root eel worm Heterodera where hatching of the eggs is stimulated by ‘ecleptic’ acid diffusing from the roots of the host plant.
2002 BioScience (Nexis) 52 801 Earthworms also have been reported to carry and spread plant pathogens, including..cysts of plant parasitic nematodes (e.g., potato root eelworm).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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