Definition of root vegetable Root vegetable
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What does root vegetable mean?
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| root vegetable - any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers | ||
| veg, veggie, vegetable edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant | ||
| irish potato, murphy, tater, potato, spud, white potato an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland | ||
| yam edible tuberous root of various yam plants of the genus Dioscorea grown in the tropics world-wide for food | ||
| sweet potato the edible tuberous root of the sweet potato vine which is grown widely in warm regions of the United States | ||
| sunchoke, jerusalem artichoke sunflower tuber eaten raw or boiled or sliced thin and fried as Saratoga chips | ||
| beet, beetroot round red root vegetable | ||
| carrot promise of reward as in "carrot and stick"; "used the carrot of subsidized housing for the workers to get their vote"; | ||
| celeriac, celery root thickened edible aromatic root of a variety of celery plant | ||
| salsify either of two long roots eaten cooked | ||
| parsnip whitish edible root; eaten cooked | ||
| radish pungent fleshy edible root | ||
| turnip root of any of several members of the mustard family | ||
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root vegetable
Plant which stores edible material in a root, corm or tuber.
