Phrase guide

root vegetable

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

noun

Meaning 1

A vegetable whose edible part is the root, such as the carrot, potato, or onion.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: vegetable, veggie, veg

Narrower terms: potato, white potato, Irish potato, murphy, spud, tater, yam, sweet potato, Jerusalem artichoke, sunchoke, beet, beetroot, carrot, celeriac, celery root, salsify, parsnip, radish, turnip, taro, taro root, cocoyam, dasheen, edda

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Across languages

Translations

35 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Belarusian: караняпло́д (karanjaplód) — edible root
  • Bulgarian: коренопло́д (korenoplód) — edible root
  • Chinese Mandarin: 塊根植物 /块根植物 (kuàigēn zhíwù) — edible root
  • Chuvash: кӑшман (kăšman) — edible root
  • Danish: rodfrugt — edible root
  • Dutch: wortelgroente — edible root
  • Dutch: wortelgewas — edible root
  • Dutch: knolgewas — edible root
  • Estonian: juurvili — edible root
  • Finnish: juures — edible root
  • French: légume-racine — edible root
  • Galician: raíz — edible root
  • German: Wurzelgemüse — edible root
  • Hindi: कंद (kand) — edible root
  • Hungarian: gyökérzöldség — edible root
  • Irish: meacan — edible root
  • Japanese: 根菜 (konsai) — edible root
  • Khmer: បន្លែឫស (bɑnlae rɨh) — edible root
  • Korean: 뿌리채소 (ppurichaeso) — edible root
  • Korean: 근채 (geunchae) — edible root
  • Lao: ມັນ (man) — edible root
  • Māori: huaone — edible root
  • Norwegian Bokmål: rotfrukt — edible root
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: rotfrukt — edible root
  • Polish: warzywo korzeniowe — edible root
  • Romanian: rădăcinoasă — edible root
  • Russian: корнепло́д (korneplód) — edible root
  • Scottish Gaelic: meacan — edible root
  • Spanish: vianda — edible root
  • Spanish: vívere — edible root
  • Swedish: rotfrukt — edible root
  • Swedish: rotsak — edible root
  • Turkish: kök sebze — edible root
  • Udmurt: кушман (kušman) — edible root
  • Ukrainian: коренеплі́д (koreneplíd) — edible root