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root crop

NOUN
  1. crop grown for its enlarged roots: e.g. beets; potatoes; turnips

How To Use root crop In A Sentence

  • During the next five or even ten years, non-grain cultigens dominated; first root crops and then tree crops were cultivated.
  • In N. America arrowhead has long been gathered from the wild by Indians (for whom it was probably the most valuable of the available root crops) and sometimes by white inhabitants.
  • The corms of many aroids (the arum lily family) are important tropical root crops.
  • Cereal and root crops are equally vulnerable to rabbit damage.
  • This gravelly soil is well drained and good for growing root crops.
  • Cereal and root crops are equally vulnerable to rabbit damage.
  • Peas and lentils were sown along with cereals on the first farms of the Middle East; the New World grew beans and maize, soy and mung were planted alongside Asian rice, and peanuts aided sub-Saharan root crops.
  • We need to ask ourselves if we are making good use of the many root crops we produce (yams, dasheen, cassava).
  • Niueans cultivate both root crops such as talo, yams, and tapioca, and tree crops such as coconut, breadfruit, papaya, and mango, as well as bananas.
  • The cigar looked like some kind of vegetable, a root crop, related, perhaps, to the mangel-wurzel. La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
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