3-syllable Vegetables that start with T

List of 3-syllable Vegetables that start with T

1

Tigernut

Cyperus esculentus

A wrinkled brown tuber (not actually a nut) eaten as a snack across Africa and the Mediterranean — and the foundation of Spain's beloved horchata de chufa, dating back to Moorish-era Valencia.

2

Tomato

Solanum lycopersicum

A sweet-tart nightshade berry, botanically a fruit, treated culinarily as a vegetable, and the foundation of cuisines from Italy to Mexico.

3

Tree Onion

Allium × proliferum

A perennial onion variety (also called walking onion or topset onion) that produces small bulbs at the top of its flower stalks — drooping under their own weight to plant new bulbs nearby, "walking" across the garden.

4

Turmeric

Curcuma longa

A bright orange-yellow rhizome from a tropical Asian plant — fundamental to South Asian and Southeast Asian cuisine, the source of curry's golden color, and the focus of an enormous global "anti-inflammatory" supplement industry.