- root vegetable - any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers
--1 is a kind of vegetable, veggie
--1 has particulars: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