root vegetable

1. Any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers (synset 107726028)
   is a 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
   subtypes:

   • 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

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