root vegetable

/rut ˈvɛdʒtəbəl/

/rut ˈvɛdʒtəbəl/

Other forms: root vegetables

Definitions of root vegetable

1. noun

   any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers
   types:

   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

   baked potato

   potato that has been cooked by baking it in an oven

   chips, french fries, french-fried potatoes, fries

   strips of potato fried in deep fat

   home fries, home-fried potatoes

   sliced pieces of potato fried in a pan until brown and crisp

   mashed potato

   potato that has been peeled and boiled and then mashed

   Uruguay potato

   similar to the common potato

   yam

   sweet potato with deep orange flesh that remains moist when baked

   sugar beet

   white-rooted beet grown as a source of sugar

   mangel-wurzel

   cultivated as feed for livestock

   oyster plant, vegetable oyster

   long white salsify

   black salsify, scorzonera

   long black salsify

   white turnip

   white root of a turnip plant

   rutabaga, swede, swedish turnip, yellow turnip

   the large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food

   type 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