Pomme de Terre
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Pomme de Terre is French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 and is translated as "apple of the earth," which usually refers to the potato
Potato
The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial Solanum tuberosum of the Solanaceae family . The word potato may refer to the plant itself as well as the edible tuber. In the region of the Andes, there are some other closely related cultivated potato species...

. The synonymous is patate.

Pomme de Terre may refer to a location in the United States:
  • Pomme de Terre, Minnesota
    Pomme de Terre, Minnesota
    Pomme de Terre is a ghost town in section 24 of Pomme de Terre Township in Grant County, Minnesota.-History:The village of Pomme de Terre was first settled in the late 1860s and was platted in 1874 in section 24 of Pomme de Terre Township. Pomme de Terre had a post office from 1868 until 1879, and...

    , a ghost town
  • Pomme de Terre Lake
    Pomme de Terre Lake
    Pomme de Terre Lake is located in southwest Missouri at the confluence of Lindley Creek and the Pomme de Terre River . The lake is located in southern Hickory and northern Polk counties, about north of Springfield...

     in Missouri
  • Pomme de Terre River (Minnesota)
    Pomme de Terre River (Minnesota)
    The Pomme de Terre River is a tributary of the Minnesota River, 106 miles long, in western Minnesota in the United States. Via the Minnesota River, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of 875 square miles in an agricultural region...

  • Pomme de Terre River (Missouri)
    Pomme de Terre River (Missouri)
    The Pomme de Terre River is a tributary of the Osage River in southwestern Missouri in the United States. Via the Osage and Missouri rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.Pomme de terre is French for potato.-Course:...

  • Pomme de Terre Township, Grant County, Minnesota
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