root cellar

English

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.

   Potatoes can keep if they are in a root cellar.

Translations

structure built underground or partially underground and used to store vegetables, fruits, and nuts or other foods

• Finnish: maakellari (fi), maakuoppa (fi)
• German: Erdkeller (de) m, Vorratskeller (de) m
• Kalmyk: пөөгр (pöögr)
• Old Swedish: jordhkällare
• Russian: погреб (ru) m (pogreb)
• Swedish: jordkällare (sv) c
• Turkish: mahzen (tr)
• Ukrainian: льох (uk) m (lʹox), по́гріб m (póhrib), пивни́ця f (pyvnýcja) (dialectal)

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.

   The growers will root cellar whatever portion of the crop does not sell at harvest time.