ROOT VEGETABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does root vegetable mean? 

• ROOT VEGETABLE (noun)
  The noun ROOT VEGETABLE has 1 sense:

1. any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers

  Familiarity information: ROOT VEGETABLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROOT VEGETABLE (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)

 Context examples 

The ozone (O3) gas changes the molecular properties of the starch from the root vegetable to produce a bioplastic 30 per cent tougher than those made of the starch of potato, rice or maize, the researchers say.

(Scientists develop biodegradable plastic from cassava starch, SciDev.Net)