On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 12:33:56PM +0200, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > > Hi, > > On Tue, 30 May 2000, Corey Popelier wrote: > > > Well, irrelevantly to Debian its a carbohydrate. > > Hmm, as a biologist, I cannot leave it like that. > > A potato is a specialised starch storage organ of the potato plant, > necessary for vegetative reproduction. Starch is the carbohydrate, but > potato is the name for the organ and not for its content.
Well, I was going to say about the same thing, but I couldn't remember if a potato was a real tuber, or a corm or a rhizome, ... Been awhile since Botany 101... (I don't think there's an 'irrelevantly' in the English language either. ;) -- ¶ One·should·only·use·the·ASCII·characterset·when·compos » ing·email·messages.
