Turnip

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A widely cultivated Eurasian plant (Brassica rapa) of the mustard family, having a large fleshy edible yellow or white root.
  • n. The root of this plant, eaten as a vegetable.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The white root of a yellow-flowered plant, Brassica rapa, grown as a vegetable and as fodder for cattle.
  • n. The yellow root of a related plant, the swede or Brassica napus.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The edible, fleshy, roundish, or somewhat conical, root of a cruciferous plant (Brassica campestris, var. Napus); also, the plant itself.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The thick fleshy root of the plant designated by Linnæus as Brassica Rapa, but now believed to be a variety, together with the rape (which see), of B. campestris, a plant found wild, in varieties corresponding to these plants, in Europe and Asiatic Russia (see navew); also, the plant itself, a common garden and field crop.
  • n. Same as Indian turnip.
  • n. (See also lion's-turnip, prairie-turnip.)
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. widely cultivated plant having a large fleshy edible white or yellow root
  • n. root of any of several members of the mustard family
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    white turnip    Scotland    swede    summer turnip    Ireland    England    tumshie    Northern   
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    carrot    onion    beets    lentil    barley    beet    cucumber    squash    clover    mushroom