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bluenose potato
Obs.
a variety of potato having a bluish tip.
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Bluenose
(def. 3)
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.