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Answer for the clue "American term for swede ", 8 letters:
rutabaga

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
The rutabaga , swede (from Swedish turnip ), turnip , or neep ( Brassica napobrassica , or Brassica napus var. napobrassica , or Brassica napus subsp. rapifera ) is a root vegetable that originated as a cross between the cabbage and the turnip . The roots ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food [syn: swede , swedish turnip , yellow turnip ] a cruciferous plant with a thick bulbous edible yellow root [syn: turnip cabbage , swede , Swedish turnip , rutabaga plant , Brassica napus napobrassica ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context North America English) the swede, or Swedish turnip; the European plant ''Brassica napus'' 2 (context North America English) the edible root of this plant

Usage examples of rutabaga.

Then, suddenly, there slid from under the Bridge of Kisses a bateau heaped with rutabagas and mangelwurzels, poled along by a solitary muzhik, and the ice crackled and broke as the boat plowed through it.

To hear the old-timers tell it, every pancake they ever see when they are young is a double Myrna Loy, though the chances are, figuring in the law of averages, that some of them are bound to be rutabagas, the same as now.

The soup contained potatoes, rutabagas, and carrots but hardly any meat.

Lee, who was spading the dark composted earth of his vegetable garden and planting his spring vegetables, carrots and beets, turnips, peas, and string beans, rutabaga and kale.

But what she hits me with back of the head is not an apple, or a peach, or a rutabaga, or a cabbage, or even a casaba melon, but a brickbat that the wop has on his cart to weight down the paper sacks in which he sells his goods.

Instead its mushrooms, black beans, fettucine, lettuce, a pineapple, skim milk, coffee, radishes, turnips, a rutabaga, oatmeal, butter, cottage cheese, rye bread, mayonnaise, eggs, razors, deodorant, Granny Smith apples, half-and-half, bagels, shrimp, cream cheese, Frosted MiniWheats, marinara sauce, frozen orange juice, carrots, condoms, sweet potatoes.

Dumbstruck, the party saw squads of squash, platoons of potatoes, companies of kumquats, battalions of beets, and regiments of radishes, all tramping to a martial air played by a fifty-piece rutabaga marching band.

Shooting upward at rapid speed were heads of lettuce, ears of corn, stalks of celery, hundreds upon hundreds of cabbages, kumquats, beets, okra, eggplant, radishes, cauliflower, tomatoes, artichokes, carrots, parsley, spinach, kale, peas, basil, cucumbers, turnips, rutabagas, squash, broccoli, peppers, beans, asparagus, sprouts, green onions, white onions, red onions, yellow onions-all manner of produce, some varieties quite new to the region.

Fried okra, Crowder peas with boiled okra, rutabaga, fried eggplant, and fried summer squash—.

Fried okra, Crowder peas with boiled okra, rutabaga, fried eggplant, and fried summer squash&mdash.