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Root vegetable, one of a group found among cabbages? (5)

Ross

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swede

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'root vegetable' is the definition.
(swede is a kind of root vegetable)

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(Other definitions for swede that I've seen before include "Foreigner" , "plant" , "Citizen of kingdom" , "Cattle fodder" , "Nobel for one" .)

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