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Definition of Turnip
1. Noun. Widely cultivated plant having a large fleshy edible white or yellow root.
Terms within: White Turnip, Turnip Greens
Group relationships: Brassica, Genus Brassica
Generic synonyms: Turnip Plant
2. Noun. Root of any of several members of the mustard family.
Specialized synonyms: White Turnip, Rutabaga, Swede, Swedish Turnip, Yellow Turnip
Group relationships: Turnip Plant
Definition of Turnip
1. n. The edible, fleshy, roundish, or somewhat conical, root of a cruciferous plant (Brassica campestris, var. Napus); also, the plant itself.
Definition of Turnip
1. Noun. The white root of a yellow-flowered plant, ''Brassica rapa'', grown as a vegetable and as fodder for cattle. ¹
2. Noun. (Scotland Ireland Cornwall Atlantic Canada) The yellow root of a related plant, the swede or ''Brassica napus''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Turnip
1. an edible plant root [n -S]
Medical Definition of Turnip
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Turnip
Literary usage of Turnip
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"They are all very small, the largest not more than two linos long and one line
wide ; most are shining green, tinged with brown or yellowish. The turnip fly ..."
2. The New England Farmer by Samuel W. Cole (1856)
"Рот the A>w England Farmer, turnip CULTURE. . Having received, by way of the
Patent Office at Washington, twenty-six kinds of turnip seed, which were sent ..."
3. Food and the Principles of Dietetics by Robert Hutchison (1911)
"It is difficult to realize that an apparently solid object like a turnip really
contains more water than a fluid like milk ; yet such is the fact. ..."
4. The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells (1920)
"FINNEY'S turnip MR. FINNEY had a turnip And it grew and it grew; And it grew
behind the barn, And that turnip did no harm. There it grew and it grew Till it ..."
5. A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: Comprising the Definitions and by George William Cox (1867)
"An instrument for rota- turnip-fly. As different insects prey, in the larva state,
upon the leaves of the growing turnip, the most destructive, ..."
6. Original Poems, for Infant Minds by Ann Taylor, Jane Taylor, O'Keeffe (Adelaide) (1834)
"turnip-TOPS. WHILE yet the white frost sparkles over the ground, And day-light
just peeps from the misty blue sky, In yonder green fields, with my basket ..."
7. Report on the Injurious Insects and Other Animals Observed in the Midland by Walter Edward Collinge (1908)
"Further, all infected cabbage stalks and turnip peelings should be burnt, ...
A Staffordshire correspondent forwarded turnip seed badly infested with the ..."
8. The Gentleman Farmer: Being an Attempt to Improve Agriculture, by Subjecting by Henry Home Kames (1776)
"turnip. IT animates me to have opportunity for giving directions about a crop,
... The proper foil for turnip is a gravelly foil; and there it can be ..."
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