Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An underground pit or cellar, usually covered with earth, used for the storage of root crops and other vegetables.
Wiktionary
- n. a structure built underground or partially underground and used to store vegetables, fruits, and nuts or other foods
WordNet 3.0
- n. an excavation where root vegetables are stored
Examples
“Homemade strawberry jam is supercinchy to make if you’re not preserving it with wax seals in airtight jars to store in the root cellar for the long winter.”
“There isn't a mountain worthy of the name in these parts, and Measure's in the root cellar behind Vinegar Riley's house -- ”
“They locked me in the root cellar an 'went upstairs," Asa continued.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘root cellar’.
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Putting down roots
root beer, crinkleroot, root canal, root cellar, roothold, rootlet, rootworm, Stephen Root, square root, snakeroot, arrowroot, scrootch and 64 more...
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where the sun don't ever shine
dark rooms
dungeon, cellar, basement, closet, cavern, cave, catacomb, crypt, grotto, sepulcher, masoleum, tomb and 23 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (R)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
rabicano, raceme, radiant, raggedy ann, rain, rambling rose, ramparts, rampion, rapacious, rapier, rapine, rarebit and 66 more...
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Food&Kitchen
drupe, brick, offal, triffle, scullion, larder, cog, tub, swill, dreg, banger, kedgeree and 25 more...
Tweets
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treeseed A root cellar is a structure that was used before the advent of electricity to store vegetables.
_Wikipedia Jun 9, 2008