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Root vegetable high in vitamin C
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rutabaga
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Word definitions for rutabaga in dictionaries
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
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ On one such evening dark and cool, Sethe cut a rutabaga into four pieces and left them stewing.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Rutabaga is the name of the gene encoding calcium-sensitive dependent adenylate cyclase in fruit flies . Rutabaga has been implicated in a number of functions, including learning and memory, behavior, and cell communication.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1799, from Swedish dialectal (West Götland) rotabagge , from rot "root" (see root (n.)) + bagge "bag" (see bag (n.)). Slang meaning "dollar" is from 1940s.
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.