root vegetable

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root vegetable - any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubersveg, vegetable, veggie - edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plantIrish potato, murphy, potato, spud, tater, white potato - an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Irelandyam - edible tuberous root of various yam plants of the genus Dioscorea grown in the tropics world-wide for foodsweet potato - the edible tuberous root of the sweet potato vine which is grown widely in warm regions of the United Statessunchoke, Jerusalem artichoke - sunflower tuber eaten raw or boiled or sliced thin and fried as Saratoga chipsbeet, beetroot - round red root vegetablecarrot - orange root; important source of caroteneceleriac, celery root - thickened edible aromatic root of a variety of celery plantsalsify - either of two long roots eaten cookedparsnip - whitish edible root; eaten cookedradish - pungent fleshy edible rootturnip - root of any of several members of the mustard familyedda, taro root, cocoyam, dasheen, taro - tropical starchy tuberous root