1. a plant of the pea family with an edible tuber, native to western North America and traditionally used as food by Indigenous peoples
Usage: also called prairie turnip or tipsin; botanical name: Pediomelum esculentum

Examples

• The Nez Perce people harvested breadroot in the spring and dried it for winter storage.
• Breadroot grows in the grasslands and prairies of the northwestern United States.
• The tuber of the breadroot plant is nutritious and was a staple food for many tribes.
• Ethnobotanists have documented the traditional uses of breadroot in Indigenous cuisine.
• Breadroot plants produce small purple flowers before their edible tubers develop underground.