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root vegetable
Sign in to saveAlso known as root vegetables, root crops, root as food, culinary root, medicinal root
plant root used as a vegetable
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 313 inbound references to root vegetable, and connects out to tuber, Oceania and food.
Vinony files it under Edible plants, Lists of foods and Root vegetables.
Vinony links it to 51 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- useful plant
- Image
- Carrots with stems.jpg
- Has use
- medication
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- Commons category
- Root vegetables
- topic's main category
- Category:Root vegetables
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- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- water footprint
- 0.47
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Encyclopedic overview
Carrot roots come in various shapes and colorsRoot vegetables are underground plant parts eaten by humans and other animals as food. In agricultural and culinary terminology, the term applies to true roots, such as taproots and root tubers, as well as non-roots such as bulbs, corms, rhizomes, and stem tubers.
Description
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “root vegetable” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.