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rooty

1 7.1

Having an earthy taste or smell like beets

adjective
/ˈruːti/

: terroso

This soup features a rooty essence, giving it a hearty, earthy taste.

Examples

And it tastes like it was in the ground, like a rooty vegetable thing.
The dish had a rooty flavor that reminded me of fresh carrots and beets.
She loved the rooty aroma of the herbal tea made from root vegetables.

Synonyms

earthy

vsrooty

13 3.4

Having the smell, color, or taste of soil

is narrower, evoking root vegetable flavors rather than general soil notes

Antonyms

bland

23 2.0

Food that has a very weak taste and little or no strong flavor

How Earthy

rooty

1 7.1

earthy

13 3.4

robust

6 4.5

mild

75 1.0

Surface Forms

rooty positive

Morphology

rooty = root (transparent) = root + y

The taste or aroma meaning is a natural extension of 'having qualities of roots' from 'root' + '-y', so learners can reasonably infer it.

Etymology

Rooty comes from the simple word root ('a root vegetable or the part of a plant under the ground') plus the ending -y ('having' or 'full of'), so rooty means 'having the taste or smell of roots', like an earthy tea or soup.