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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | vegetable |
| Synonyms: | beet, bulb, jalap, potato, root, salep, taro, turnip, yam |
| Notes: | tubers are different from bulbs and corms in that they have no basal plate or enveloping leaves |
| Main Entry: | root |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | base, core |
| Synonyms: | basis, bedrock, beginnings, bottom, cause, center, crux, derivation, essence, essentiality, footing, foundation, fountain, fountainhead, fundamental, germ, ground, groundwork, heart, inception, infrastructure, mainspring, marrow, motive, nub, nucleus, occasion, origin, pith, provenance, provenience, quick, quintessence, radicle, radix, reason, rhizome, rock bottom, seat, seed, soul, source, starting point, stem, stuff, substance, substratum, tuber, underpinning, well |
| Antonyms: | derivation, derivative, sprout |
| Main Entry: | potato |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | vegetable |
| Synonyms: | murphy, plant, spud, tater, tuber, yam |
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