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Definition of Turnip cabbage

1. Noun. A cruciferous plant with a thick bulbous edible yellow root.

2. Noun. Fleshy turnip-shaped edible stem of the kohlrabi plant.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Turnip Cabbage

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Literary usage of Turnip cabbage

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Farmer's Encyclopædia, and Dictionary of Rural Affairs: Embracing All by Cuthbert William Johnson (1844)
"Earth may be drawn up to the stem of the turnip cabbage, as to other species of brassica; but the bulb of the turnip-rooted must not be covered with the ..."

2. General View of the Agriculture of the County of Huntingdon by Richard Parkinson (1811)
"NONE. NONE. SECT. XIX.—turnip cabbage. SECT. XX.—RHOL RABBI. NONE. SECT. XXI.—BORE COLE, &C. SECT. XXII.—CARROTS. ONLY for table. ..."

3. General View of the Agriculture of the County of Durham: With Observations by John Bailey (1810)
"turnip cabbage. SECT. XVIII.—KHOL RABIE. I found very few farmers that knew or even had heard of this plant. Messrs Taylor, of St Helen Auckland, ..."

4. The Horticulturist; Or, An Attempt to Teach the Science and Practice of the by John Claudius Loudon, Loudon (Jane) (1849)
"... curd becomes broken, with about six inches of the stalk to each head, and the stems may be Ic-ft lo produce sprouts. 1381. The Turnip-cabbage, or turnip ..."

5. Lectures to Farmers on Agricultural Chemistry by Alexander Petzholdt (1846)
"The turnip-cabbage ... This must certainly have been a cross between the common cabbage and the turnip-cabbage. These considerations speak loudly in favor ..."

6. The American Gardener's Calendar: Adapted to the Climate and Seasons of the by Bernard M'Mahon, John Jay Smith (1857)
"The turnip-cabbage produces its bulb or protuberance, which approaches to roundness, on the stem above ground, immediately under the leaves. ..."

7. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1805)
"... of agriculture at the period of its delivery, and with recounting the disadvantages under which it laboured in France. The Turnip-Cabbage of Lapland, ..."

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