root artichoke

  • 1Root vegetable — Root vegetables are plant roots used as vegetables. [cite web url=http://www.askoxford.com/concise oed/root 1?view=uk title=AskOxford.com accessdate=2007 05 06] Other underground plants are often, erroneously, called root vegetables. Root… …

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  • 2Artichoke — This article is about the globe artichoke. For other uses, see Artichoke (disambiguation). Artichoke Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae …

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  • 3artichoke — ar|ti|choke [ˈa:tıtʃəuk US ˈa:rtıtʃouk] n [Date: 1500 1600; : Italian dialect; Origin: articiocco, from Arabic al khurshuf the artichoke ] 1.) also globe artichoke a type of round green vegetable, which has ↑buds with leaves that you eat, which… …

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  • 4artichoke — noun (C) 1 also globe artichoke a plant with thick pointed leaves that are eaten as a vegetable 2 also Jerusalem artichoke a plant that has a root like a potato that you can eat …

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  • 5root vegetable — noun any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers • Hypernyms: ↑vegetable, ↑veggie, ↑veg • Hyponyms: ↑potato, ↑white potato, ↑Irish potato, ↑murphy, ↑ …

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  • 6Jerusalem artichoke — Stem with flowers Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae (unranked) …

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  • 7List of root vegetables — Carrot roots Root vegetables are plant roots used as vegetables. Here root means any underground part of a plant.[1] Root vegetables are generally storage organs, enlarged to store energy in the form of carbohydrates.[ …

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  • 8Je·ru·sa·lem artichoke — /ʤəˌruːsələm / noun, pl ⋯ chokes [count] : the root of a plant that looks like a potato and is eaten as a vegetable …

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  • 9vegetable farming — Introduction       growing of vegetable crops, primarily for use as human food.       The term vegetable in its broadest sense refers to any kind of plant life or plant product; in the narrower sense, as used in this article, however, it refers… …

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  • 10List of rivers of Minnesota — List of rivers in Minnesota (U.S. state). Contents 1 Alphabetically 1.1 A–C 1.2 D–H …

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