Root
Vegetable
Vegetable noun - Any of various herbaceous plants cultivated for an edible part such as the fruit or the root of the beet or the leaf of spinach or the seeds of bean plants or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower.
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Synonyms for Vegetable
Root and vegetable are semantically related in edible part of plant topic. You can use "Root" instead a noun "Vegetable".
Both words in one sentence
- The sample characters in the squad include a cowardly officer and his root-vegetable obsessed batman, a Sweet Polly Oliver Slayer and her Watcher, an immortal Scotsman, and a young soldier who insists the vampires "don't like it up 'em".
Source: Shout Out / Tabletop Games -
The problem is that a yam is a completely different vegetable (Dioscorea spp.) that 'resembles' the sweet potato only in that it is an edible root; sweet potatoes are generally about six inches long, thin-skinned, and related to morning glories.
Source: Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit" -
In The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Victor, about to shoot the Were-Rabbit with a golden bullet shaped like a root vegetable: "Eat carat, bunny boy." Fortunately, it was subverted.
Source: Pre-Mortem One-Liner
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Vegetable and Root. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/root/vegetable
Root & Vegetable. N.p., 2016. Web. 14 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/root/vegetable>.
Vegetable or Root. 2016. Accessed August 14, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/root/vegetable.
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