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• Root vegetable — Root vegetables are plant roots used as vegetables. [cite web url=http://www.askoxford.com/concise oed/root 1?view=uk title=AskOxford.com accessdate=2007 05 06] Other underground plants are often, erroneously, called root vegetables. Root… …   Wikipedia

• root vegetable — noun The root of a plant used as an edible vegetable, such as the carrot, potato, or onion …   Wiktionary

• root vegetable — noun the fleshy enlarged root of a plant used as a vegetable, e.g. a carrot …   English new terms dictionary

• root crop — noun crop grown for its enlarged roots: e.g. beets; potatoes; turnips • Hypernyms: ↑crop * * * noun : a crop grown for its enlarged roots (as turnips, mangels, sugar beets, sweet potatoes) * * * a crop, as beets, turnips, or sweet potatoes, grown …   Useful english dictionary

• vegetable farming — Introduction       growing of vegetable crops, primarily for use as human food.       The term vegetable in its broadest sense refers to any kind of plant life or plant product; in the narrower sense, as used in this article, however, it refers… …   Universalium

• Vegetable — For other uses, see Vegetable (disambiguation). Farmers market showing vegetable …   Wikipedia

• vegetable processing — Introduction       preparation of vegetables (vegetable) for use by humans as food.       Vegetables consist of a large group of plants consumed as food. Perishable when fresh but able to be preserved by a number of processing methods, they are… …   Universalium

• vegetable — /vej teuh beuhl, vej i teuh /, n. 1. any plant whose fruit, seeds, roots, tubers, bulbs, stems, leaves, or flower parts are used as food, as the tomato, bean, beet, potato, onion, asparagus, spinach, or cauliflower. 2. the edible part of such a… …   Universalium

• Vegetable caterpillar — Taxobox name = Caterpillar fungus image width = 250px image caption = Cordyceps sinensis regnum = Fungi phylum = Ascomycota classis = Sordariomycetes ordo = Hypocreales familia = Clavicipitaceae genus = Cordyceps species = C. sinensis binomial =… …   Wikipedia

• Root cellar — A root cellar is a structure originating before the advent of electricity to store vegetables. They are still used today on a commercial scale to store seed potatoes during the winter, while on a private scale families still maintain small… …   Wikipedia

• vegetable turpeth — Turpeth Tur peth, n. [NL. turpethum, fr. Per. tirbid a cathartic, turbad a purgative root. Cf. {Turbith}.] [Written also {turbeth}, and {turbith}.] 1. (Bot.) The root of {Ipom[oe]a Turpethum}, a plant of Ceylon, Malabar, and Australia, formerly… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English