The Collaborative International Dictionary
Swedish \Swed"ish\, a. [Cf. G. schwedisch, Sw. svensk.] Of or pertaining to Sweden or its inhabitants.
Swedish turnip. (Bot.) See under Turnip.
Turnip \Tur"nip\, n. [OE. turnep; probably fr. turn, or F. tour a turn, turning lathe + OE. nepe a turnip, AS. n[=ae]pe, L. napus. Cf. Turn,v. t., Navew.] (Bot.) The edible, fleshy, roundish, or somewhat conical, root of a cruciferous plant ( Brassica campestris, var. Napus); also, the plant itself. [Formerly written also turnep.] Swedish turnip (Bot.), a kind of turnip. See Ruta-baga. Turnip flea (Zo["o]l.), a small flea-beetle ( Haltica, striolata syn. Phyllotreta striolata), which feeds upon the turnip, and often seriously injures it. It is black with a stripe of yellow on each elytron. The name is also applied to several other small insects which are injurious to turnips. See Illust. under Flea-beetle. Turnip fly. (Zo["o]l.)
The turnip flea.
A two-winged fly ( Anthomyia radicum) whose larv[ae] live in the turnip root.
Usage examples of "swedish turnip".
The Swedish turnip may profit by the area of its leaves being reduced at night by about 30 per cent.
In the vegetable kingdom we have a case of analogous variation, in the enlarged stems, or roots as commonly called, of the Swedish turnip and Ruta baga, plants which several botanists rank as varieties produced by cultivation from a common parent: if this be not so, the case will then be one of analogous variation in two so-called distinct species.