English > root vegetable: 1 sense > noun 1, food| Meaning | Any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers. |
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| Narrower | Jerusalem artichoke, sunchoke | sunflower tuber eaten raw or boiled or sliced thin and fried as Saratoga chips |
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| beet, beetroot | round red root vegetable |
| carrot | orange root |
| celeriac, celery root | thickened edible aromatic root of a variety of celery plant |
| parsnip | whitish edible root |
| potato, white potato, Irish potato, murphy, spud, tater | An edible tuber native to South America |
| radish | pungent fleshy edible root |
| salsify | Either of two long roots eaten cooked |
| sweet potato | The edible tuberous root of the sweet potato vine which is grown widely in warm regions of the United States |
| taro, taro root, cocoyam, dasheen, edda | Tropical starchy tuberous root |
| turnip | root of any of several members of the mustard family |
| yam | edible tuberous root of various yam plants of the genus Dioscorea grown in the tropics world-wide / world-wide for food |
| Broader | vegetable, veggie, veg | edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant |
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| Spanish | tubérculo |
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| Catalan | tubercle, tubèrcul |
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