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ROOT VEGETABLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("root vegetable" is a kind of...):
veg; vegetable; veggie (edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "root vegetable"):
Irish potato; murphy; potato; spud; tater; 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)
Jerusalem artichoke; sunchoke (sunflower tuber eaten raw or boiled or sliced thin and fried as Saratoga chips)
beet; beetroot (round red root vegetable)
carrot (orange root; important source of carotene)
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)
cocoyam; dasheen; edda; taro; taro root (tropical starchy tuberous root)
