Root vegetable
Root vegetable noun - Any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers.
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Yam and root vegetable are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Yam" instead a noun phrase "Root vegetable".
Yam
Yam noun - Edible tuberous root of various yam plants of the genus Dioscorea grown in the tropics world-wide for food.
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Yam and Root vegetable. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 13, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/root_vegetable/yam
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