Crops grown for a starchy underground root, tuber or corm: potato, sweet potato, cassava, yam, taro and the Andean root crops oca and ulluco. Belongs here: a crop whose primary harvested and eaten part grows underground and stores starch. Does not belong here: a root crop grown chiefly for sugar rather than starch, such as sugar beet, held under Sugar Crops instead.
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1. Wikipedia: Root vegetable
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Root vegetables are underground plant parts eaten by humans and other animals as food.
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