wortelgewas

Definitions of wortelgewas
  1. noun
    any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers
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    aardappel, pieper
    an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland
    yam, yamswortel
    edible tuberous root of various yam plants of the genus Dioscorea grown in the tropics world-wide for food
    aardpeer, topinamboer
    sunflower tuber eaten raw or boiled or sliced thin and fried as Saratoga chips
    beet, biet, bietekroot, bietenkroot, kroot
    round red root vegetable
    knolselder, knolselderie, knolselderij, raapselderie, raapselderij, selder, selderie, selderieknol, selderij, selderijknol
    thickened edible aromatic root of a variety of celery plant
    schorseneel, schorseneer
    either of two long roots eaten cooked
    pastinaak
    whitish edible root; eaten cooked
    radijs
    pungent fleshy edible root
    raap, val
    root of any of several members of the mustard family
    Edda
    tropical starchy tuberous root
    friet, frieten, frietje, frites, patat, patates frites, patatje
    strips of potato fried in deep fat
    beetwortel, suikerbiet
    white-rooted beet grown as a source of sugar
    koepeen, mangel, mangelwortel, voederbiet, voerbiet
    cultivated as feed for livestock
    schorseneel, schorseneer
    long white salsify
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    groente
    edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
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