{
    "term": "potato",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "image": "data/images/ve/vegetables_misc.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a round white vegetable with a brown or red skin that grows underground as part of a plant also called a potato",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Will you peel the potatoes for me?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**roast/fried potatoes**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "potato salad"
                },
                {
                    "text": "leek and potato soup"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a plate of fried potato skins"
                },
                {
                    "text": "boiled potatoes with sour cream and chives"
                },
                {
                    "text": "potatoes baked in their jackets"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Food"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["baking", "new", "sweet"],
                "… of potatoes": ["sack"],
                "verb + potato": ["eat", "have", "peel"],
                "potato + noun": ["chip", "crisp", "pancake"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/pəˈteɪtəʊ/",
                "audio": "po/potato/potato__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/pəˈteɪtəʊ/",
                "audio": "po/potato/potato__us_2_rr.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "mid 16th cent.: from Spanish patata, variant of Taino batata ‘sweet potato’. The English word originally denoted the sweet potato and gained its current sense in the late 16th cent."
}