The phrase "as a root vegetable" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a type of vegetable that grows underground and is typically consumed as food.
Example: "Carrots are commonly enjoyed as a root vegetable in salads and soups."
Alternatives: "in the category of root vegetables" or "as a type of root vegetable."
Its taproot can be eaten as a root vegetable or fermented with dandelion to make a naturally fizzy soft drink.
We've not had the open mic gaffe, the candidate falling over or even the mocked-up tabloid front-page depiction of a party leader as a root vegetable.
Maca, or Peruvian ginseng (L. meyenii), is native to the Andes Mountains of central Peru, where it is grown as a root vegetable for its fleshy underground storage organ known as a hypocotyl.
Graham Taylor was immortalised as a root vegetable during his turbulent time as England manager but amid such crudities it is easy to lose sight of the fact that at club level, where he has won seven promotions during his time with Lincoln, Aston Villa and Watford, he remains one of the finest English managers of his generation.
Carrot is a biennial crop that is harvested as a root vegetable after the first season of growth.
Despite its agricultural importance as a root vegetable crop, radish has only recently been analyzed using genomic and functional genomic approaches.
Houses, buildings and associated infrastructure are replacing gardens, banana plants, papaya trees and other traditional crops such as pulaka, also known as swamp taro – a root vegetable grown in pits dug into the limestone atoll.
Try fresh-as-can-be seared scallops with black pudding, pancetta and pea puree, or braised shoulder of local lamb with a root vegetable rosti.
For kitchen purposes, a root vegetable is any vegetable where all or most of the part you eat grows underground — or, as the food writer and historian Anne Mendelson describes them, "a bunch of people who happen to be named Smith".
It might seem unlikely for tiny Third World venders to prove useful to Wall Street, but it's at least as plausible as a lowly root vegetable helping set the political course for the second most populous country on earth.
There were tiny gherkins (cornichons) as well as a variety of root vegetables pickled more lightly and cut into little dice.
