bluenose potato

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a variety of potato having a bluish tip.

See: Bluenose(def. 3)

Quotations

1807

Blue Nose Potatoes, To be sold at Mr. Russell's Farm near York.

1843

. . . a broiled chicken and blue-nose potatoes.

1942

. . . he . . . seemed to get a good deal of satisfaction from . . . the sight of my bold Strang nose as blue as a bluenose potato.