Spanish potato

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Spanish potato (plural Spanish potatoes)

(obsolete) sweet potato
- 1884, Henry Nicholson Ellacombe, The Plant-lore & Garden-craft of Shakespeare:
  Gerard grew them in 1597, but only as curiosities, under the name of Virginian Potatoes (Battata Virginianorum and Pappas), to distinguish them from the Spanish Potato, or Convolvulus Battatas

References

“Spanish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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