root vegetable (redirected from Starchy root vegetable)

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root vegetable - any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers veg, vegetable, veggie - edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant 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 sunchoke, Jerusalem artichoke - 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 edda, taro root, cocoyam, dasheen, taro - tropical starchy tuberous root