root vegetable
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1. any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers (noun.food)
| hypernym | : | veg, vegetable, veggie, |
| definition | : | edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant (noun.food) |
| hyponym | : | yam, |
| definition | : | edible tuberous root of various yam plants of the genus Dioscorea grown in the tropics world-wide for food (noun.food) |
| hyponym | : | sweet potato, |
| definition | : | the edible tuberous root of the sweet potato vine which is grown widely in warm regions of the United States (noun.food) |
| hyponym | : | jerusalem artichoke, sunchoke, |
| definition | : | sunflower tuber eaten raw or boiled or sliced thin and fried as Saratoga chips (noun.food) |
| hyponym | : | beet, beetroot, |
| definition | : | round red root vegetable (noun.food) |
| hyponym | : | carrot, |
| definition | : | orange root; important source of carotene (noun.food) |
| hyponym | : | celeriac, celery root, |
| definition | : | thickened edible aromatic root of a variety of celery plant (noun.food) |
| hyponym | : | salsify, |
| definition | : | either of two long roots eaten cooked (noun.food) |
| hyponym | : | parsnip, |
| definition | : | whitish edible root; eaten cooked (noun.food) |
| hyponym | : | radish, |
| definition | : | pungent fleshy edible root (noun.food) |
| hyponym | : | turnip, |
| definition | : | root of any of several members of the mustard family (noun.food) |
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