root cellar

English

Noun

root cellar (plural root cellars)

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.

Verb

root cellar (third-person singular simple present root cellars, present participle root cellaring, simple past and past participle root cellared)

To cellar (food) in a root cellar.
The growers will root cellar whatever portion of the crop does not sell at harvest time.

Translations

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

Russian: погреб (ru) m (pogreb)

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