root vegetable

English

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Noun

root vegetable (plural root vegetables)

1. A vegetable whose 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)
• Māori: 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.com 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.