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any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers

↑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

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: a vegetable (such as a carrot or potato) that grows under the ground