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turnip

turnip

38 1.0
A round root vegetable with white or yellow flesh eaten as food
  • noun
  • /ˈtɜrnɪp/
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  • Even from there, the smell of boiling turnip greens hits you.
  • turnip crop
  • field of turnips
  • turnip cultivation

He he gave me cooking lessons, how to cook turnips on an open stove.

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Examples

  • So you keep your crop rotation of turnips, barley, clover, and wheat.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • Joseph, you can bring me in some more turnips tonight.

  • This kind of turnip that's just a root vegetable.

  • In one pot, I braised quartered turnips in water until tender.

    Academic text (2004)
  • We had three rows of peas, two each of turnips and collards, and one of tomatoes.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • I got trout, two sides of turnip greens, some pepper sauce, a dumpling, a corn, a bean.

  • What you'll do is in the fall, you'll plant things like turnips or radishes, carrots even.

  • You can add turnip to the soup for extra flavor and nutrition.

  • The farmer harvested a large batch of turnips this season for the market.

  • For a healthy side dish, try roasting turnips with olive oil and herbs.

Synonyms

white turnip
vsturnip
2.4

A round white root vegetable that people eat cooked or raw

is broader, allowing white or yellowish flesh and sometimes a colored top

Idioms

To not be easily fooled because you have experience

Compounds

1 3.7

The leaves of young turnip plants that you cook and eat

A climbing plant with white flowers, a thick root, and small black berries

8.6

A North American woodland plant with leaves that have three parts and bright red berries

A large round yellow root vegetable also called rutabaga

An area of ground where you grow turnips

A vegetable with a round thick stem you can eat cooked or raw

turnip head
  • Offensive
9.7

A person who acts in a silly way that annoys others

A plant that farmers grow for a round edible root and leaves you can eat

A vegetable like celery with a large round root eaten cooked or raw

A white root vegetable with smooth leaves that looks like a parsnip

A round white root vegetable that people eat cooked or raw

A large yellow root vegetable people eat cooked or mashed

How Big

yam
26 1.0
rutabaga
  • US
9 7.2
turnip
38 1.0
beetroot
  • UK
3 2.1
radish
14 1.0

Surface Forms

turnip singular
turnips plural

Etymology

Turnip comes from two old parts: turn and neep, and neep was an old word for this root from Latin napus. The turn part likely suggests 'turned' or made round, so a turnip is a round root vegetable.