BATATAS
Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1842 · p. 5
A species of convolvulaceous plant, Convolvulus batatas, a native of the East Indies, with fleshy sweet tubers. It is much cultivated for the sake of the latter in all the hotter parts of the world, where they are much esteemed as an article of food. Its name has now been popularly transferred to the potatoe, which has expelled it from cultivation in all temperate climates. [s. 149]
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