Scientific name: solanum tuberosum
Potatoes are tubers - they grow underground but are not the central root of the plant like a carrot or turnip. One potato plant can make many potatoes. Potatoes originally came from Peru but are now grown world wide, and are the fourth biggest crop after rice, wheat, and maize.
Potatoes are best known in the form of french fries (chips) or crisps. Potato can be eaten in a huge variety of ways. It can be an ingredient in soups and stews, mashed and eaten with butter, baked, fried, boiled and in a huge variety of other dishes.
Scientific name: Potorous tridactylus
A potoroo is a small, plant-eating marsupial found in Australia. It looks like a rodent with a long nose and has strong back legs for jumping.
Potoroos use their nose to dig for roots, bulbs, and other plants.
Pottery is anything made from clay, usually by hand. Pottery includes pots, plates, vases and sculptures.
Pottery is also what you do when you make pots, the art of pottery.
A pouch is a type of small bag that opens at the top. Pouches are often a shape that has a rounded bottom. Some animals, called marsupials have pouches.
The word pound can have several meanings.
It could mean to hit something hard, many times, for example "he pounded the meat to tenderize it".
It could mean a unit of British money, equaling 100 pence.
It might also mean a unit of weight, abbreviated to lb, equalling 0.453kg, or 0.373kg for precious metals. The picture is of a pound of flour.
