rutabaga
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- noun
- /ˈruːtəˌbeɪɡə/
- US
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nabo
- Try my rutabagas.
- rutabagas and turnips
- rutabagas and parsnips
- rutabaga and carrots
Now, not represented here are other root crops like rutabagas, turnips.
- Now, not represented here are other root crops like rutabagas, turnips.
Examples
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Can one ever have too many rutabagas?
Blog text (18) -
Two rutabagas.
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- I need the rutabagas.
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- For this bread, three rutabagas.
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Try the rutabagas.
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The whole meal was delicious, but the roasted vegetables were my very favorite: potatoes, carrots, rutabagas, and parsnips.
Blog text (12) -
I was raised in the Northeast with Yankee pot roast, rutabagas, split pea soup, parsnips, rye bread, and bagels.
Blog text (28) -
Usually there was a market square close to the harbor where fishermen sold fish directly from their boats, and farmers would sell potatoes, carrots, beets, rutabagas, fresh eggs, milk, cream, buttermilk, and cheese.
Fiction book (1992) -
I made a delicious soup using rutabaga, carrots, and spices for a warm winter meal.
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At the farmers' market, I bought a fresh rutabaga to roast with potatoes and onions.
Synonyms
A large round root vegetable with yellowish inside used for cooking
A root vegetable with a large yellow bulb that you can eat, called rutabaga or swede
A large round yellow root vegetable also called rutabaga
A large yellow root vegetable people eat cooked or mashed
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Etymology
The word rutabaga comes from Swedish, where rot- means 'root' and -baga probably meant 'bag' or 'lump', so a helpful way to remember it is as a 'root-bag' — that image fits this large, round root vegetable, which is also called a swede.