"root cellar" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: root cellars [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} root cellar (plural root cellars)
  1. A structure built underground or partially underground and used to store vegetables, fruits, and nuts or other foods. Translations (structure built underground or partially underground and used to store vegetables, fruits, and nuts or other foods): maakellari (Finnish), maakuoppa (Finnish), Erdkeller [masculine] (German), Vorratskeller [masculine] (German), пөөгр (pöögr) (Kalmyk), jordhkällare (Old Swedish), погреб (pogreb) [masculine] (Russian), jordkällare [common-gender] (Swedish), mahzen (Turkish), льох (lʹox) [masculine] (Ukrainian), по́гріб (póhrib) [masculine] (Ukrainian), пивни́ця (pyvnýcja) [dialectal, feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-root_cellar-en-noun-5fOhS3~O Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 83 17

Verb

Forms: root cellars [present, singular, third-person], root cellaring [participle, present], root cellared [participle, past], root cellared [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} root cellar (third-person singular simple present root cellars, present participle root cellaring, simple past and past participle root cellared)
  1. To cellar (food) in a root cellar.
    Sense id: en-root_cellar-en-verb-Gqd-1gcF

Inflected forms

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