Spanish potato

English

Noun

Spanish potato (plural Spanish potatoes)

1. (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.