| 单词 | root vegetable |
| 释义 | root vegetable (once / 102777 pages) n WORD FAMILY root vegetable: root vegetables USAGE EXAMPLESAnd as a kid, I’d wonder why they were torturing me with this inferior root vegetable when potatoes did, in fact, exist. Washington Post(Dec 19, 2016) Fill the roast, toward the end of cooking, with tender root vegetables, and finish for a dramatic presentation. Los Angeles Times(Dec 19, 2016) For them, carrots are like ice cream, and they consume 1,750 pounds of tasty orange root vegetables every year. Los Angeles Times(Nov 26, 2016) n any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers Hypo|Hyper Irish potato, murphy, potato, spud, tater, white potato an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland yamedible tuberous root of various yam plants of the genus Dioscorea grown in the tropics world-wide for food sweet potatothe edible tuberous root of the sweet potato vine which is grown widely in warm regions of the United States Jerusalem artichoke, sunchokesunflower tuber eaten raw or boiled or sliced thin and fried as Saratoga chips beet, beetrootround red root vegetable carrotorange root; important source of carotene celeriac, celery rootthickened edible aromatic root of a variety of celery plant salsifyeither of two long roots eaten cooked parsnipwhitish edible root; eaten cooked radishpungent fleshy edible root turniproot of any of several members of the mustard family cocoyam, dasheen, edda, taro, taro roottropical starchy tuberous root baked potatopotato that has been cooked by baking it in an oven chips, french fries, french-fried potatoes, friesstrips of potato fried in deep fat home fries, home-fried potatoessliced pieces of potato fried in a pan until brown and crisp mashed potatopotato that has been peeled and boiled and then mashed Uruguay potatosimilar to the common potato yamsweet potato with deep orange flesh that remains moist when baked sugar beetwhite-rooted beet grown as a source of sugar mangel-wurzelcultivated as feed for livestock oyster plant, vegetable oysterlong white salsify black salsify, scorzoneralong black salsify white turnipwhite root of a turnip plant rutabaga, swede, swedish turnip, yellow turnipthe large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food veg, vegetable, veggie 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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