| root crop | | |
| n. (plant) | 1. root crop | crop grown for its enlarged roots: e.g. beets; potatoes; turnips. |
| ~ crop | a cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale. |
| tuber | | |
| n. (plant) | 1. tuber | a fleshy underground stem or root serving for reproductive and food storage. |
| ~ water chestnut | edible bulbous tuber of a Chinese marsh plant. |
| ~ groundnut, wild bean, potato bean | nutlike tuber; important food of Native Americans. |
| ~ jerusalem artichoke | edible tuber of the Jerusalem artichoke. |
| ~ yam | edible tuber of any of several yams. |
| ~ stalk, stem | a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ. |
| n. (plant) | 2. genus tuber, tuber | type genus of the Tuberaceae: fungi whose fruiting bodies are typically truffles. |
| ~ fungus genus | includes lichen genera. |
| ~ family tuberaceae, tuberaceae | family of fungi whose ascocarps resemble tubers and vary in size from that of an acorn to that of a large apple. |
| ~ earth-ball, earthnut, truffle | any of various highly prized edible subterranean fungi of the genus Tuber; grow naturally in southwestern Europe. |
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