Vegetables

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  1. 5. a tapering orange-colored root is eaten as a vegetable.
  2. 6. a pungent, hot-tasting powder prepared from dried and ground peppercorns, commonly used as a spice or condiment to flavor food.
  3. 8. a fungal growth that typically takes the form of a domed cap on a stalk, with gills on the underside of the cap.
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  1. 1. is a tall plant of the lily family with fine feathery foliage, cultivated for its edible shoots.
  2. 2. are starchy plant tubers which are one of the most critical food crops, and are cooked and eaten as a vegetable.
  3. 3. are herbaceous plants widely cultivated as a source of food for humans and livestock and for processing into sugar.
  4. 4. sprouts a vegetable consisting of the small compact bud of a variety of cabbage.
  5. 7. is a cultivated variety of cabbage bearing heads of green or purplish flower buds eaten as a vegetable.