root vegetable

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Noun

root vegetable (plural root vegetables)

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

Translations

edible root

Belarusian: караняпло́д m (karanjaplód) Bulgarian: коренопло́д m (korenoplód) Burmese: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: 塊根植物 / 块根植物 (zh) (kuàigēn zhíwù) Chuvash: кӑшман (kăšman) Danish: rodfrugt (da) c Dutch: wortelgroente f, wortelgewas (nl) n, knolgewas (nl) n Estonian: juurvili Finnish: juures (fi) French: légume-racine (fr) m Galician: raíz (gl) f German: Wurzelgemüse (de) n Hindi: कंद (hi) (kand) Hungarian: gyökérzöldség (hu) Irish: meacan m Japanese: 根菜 (ja) (こんさい, konsai) Khmer: បន្លែឫស (bɑnlae rɨh) Korean: 뿌리채소 (ppurichaeso), 근채(根菜) (geunchae) Lao: ມັນ (man) Maori: huaone Norwegian: Bokmål: rotfrukt m or f Nynorsk: rotfrukt f Polish: warzywo korzeniowe n Romanian: rădăcinoasă (ro) f Russian: корнепло́д (ru) m (korneplód) Scottish Gaelic: meacan m Spanish: vianda (es) f, vívere m (Dominican Republic) Swedish: rotfrukt (sv) c, rotsak (sv) c Thai: please add this translation if you can Turkish: kök sebze Udmurt: кушман (kušman) Ukrainian: коренеплі́д (uk) (koreneplíd) Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• “root vegetable”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “root vegetable”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “root vegetable” (US) / “root vegetable” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
• “root vegetable” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.