Crossword clues for turnip
turnip
- Root vegetable of the mustard family
- Root veggie
- Rutabaga relative
- Rutabaga, for one
- Greens type
- Salad root
- Rutabaga's cousin
- Winter vegetable
- White-fleshed root veggie
- Vegetable in McGregor's garden
- Type of greens
- Source of some greens
- Root crop high in vitamin C
- Large-rooted vegetable related to the cabbage
- Large watch
- Cruciferous veggie
- A rutabaga is a cross between a cabbage and this
- "You can't get blood from a ___!"
- "Tobacco Road" diet
- _____ greens
- Kind of greens
- Rutabaga, e.g
- Rutabaga, e.g.
- ___ greens
- Widely cultivated plant having a large fleshy edible white or yellow root
- Root of any of several members of the mustard family
- Vegetable with greens
- Vegetable in rotation I planted initially
- Way to get irrational number's root
- Fool performer with good write-up
- How to find pi's root
- Lift furrow to pinch vegetable
- Root Internet Protocol under change of direction
- Briefly go round and pinch a root vegetable
- Turned over furrow to pinch root vegetable
- The root that shows us pi?
- Useful hint about container for boiling vegetable
- Edible root
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1500, turnepe, probably from turn (from its shape, as though turned on a lathe) + Middle English nepe "turnip," from Old English næp, from Latin napus "turnip." The modern form of the word emerged late 18c.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The white root of a yellow-flowered plant, ''Brassica rapa'', grown as a vegetable and as fodder for cattle. 2 (context Scotland Ireland Cornwall Atlantic Canada English) The yellow root of a related plant, the swede or ''Brassica napus''.
WordNet
n. widely cultivated plant having a large fleshy edible white or yellow root [syn: white turnip, Brassica rapa]
root of any of several members of the mustard family
Wikipedia
The turnip or white turnip ( Brassica rapa subsp. rapa) is a root vegetable commonly grown in temperate climates worldwide for its white, bulbous taproot.
Small, tender varieties are grown for human consumption, while larger varieties are grown as feed for livestock.
In the north of England and Scotland, and eastern Canada ( Newfoundland), turnip (or neep; the word turnip is an old compound of tur- as in turned/rounded on a lathe and neep, derived from Latin napus) refers to the larger, yellow rutabaga root vegetable, also known as the "swede" (from "Swedish turnip").
Turnip can refer to three vegetables, which are described under the articles Turnip, Rutabaga, and Jicama. The confusion results from the following regional differences of usage.
Scientific term
Brassica rapa rapa
Brassica napus or B. napobrassica
Pachyrhizus
Southern England, most Commonwealth countries
turnip
swede (from "swedish turnip")
yam
Scotland, Ireland, the Isle of Man, and parts of Northern England
swede or white turnip
turnip, yellow turnip or "neep"
yam
Cornwall
white turnip
turnip
United States
turnip
rutabaga or yellow turnip
jicama
Malaysia, Singapore, and Philippines
turnip
also called
white turnip or summer turnip
yellow turnip or winter turnip
sweet turnip
Brassica napus and B. napobrassica are called swedes (a shortening of Swedish turnip) in England, especially in the South, and in most dialects of the Commonwealth. Rutabaga, from the Swedish rotabagga, for "root bag" is mostly used in North America, in the United States and Canada. The rutabaga or swede differs from the turnip (Brassica rapa) in that it is typically larger and yellow-orange rather than white.
However, in some dialects of British English the two vegetables have overlapping or reversed names. In the north of England and Scotland, the larger, yellow rutabagas are called neeps or turnips from folk etymology, while the smaller white turnips are called swedes.
Usage examples of "turnip".
The practice of yearly rotating crops from wheat to turnips to barley to clover and grass would seem to make sound economic as well as agronomic sense, which was undoubtedly why the previous Earl of Blackthorn had not deviated from the use of it.
I should want 200 tons of this for the mangels and turnips, and the 300 tons I should want to top-dress 20 acres of grass land intended for corn and potatoes the next year.
I fetched something like kale ravioli or turnip jam, and some eggs and cheese when I brought them a maccherone, and even good meat when I could sneak a bit of mortadella or pork jelly.
He smelled turnip greens and some kind of mustardy vegetable, and there was a faint cooking aroma of vinegar.
He trudged to Parramatta to pick up their weekly ration from the government store, dug turnips and potatoes in the garden plot, cut and carried firewood, and even, if he thought she was tired, relieved her of the thankless task of producing an edible meal from the often putrefying ration meat, which, in common with the rest of the community, they all found unpalatable.
While she spent an afternoon peeling turnips a phase or so ago for a hard-earned half crown, Pitta had mentioned their children were going north to visit their grandmother.
Six months later, all over the immense domain of the devil, one could see nothing but carrots, turnips, onions, salsify, all the plants whose juicy roots are good and savory and whose useless leaves are good for nothing but for feeding animals.
The vegetables segregated themselves by variety: All the carrots grouped together, and the onions, scallions, beets, sweet potatoes, radishes, turnips, and garlics.
I got three or four of the men to drive the wagon with me, and we went around the city sunwise, left to right, up and over, while he showed us every pass over the surrounding hills and hole through the stone escarpments while the turnips became almost hysterical with anticipation.
To the market gardener, or to a farmer who manures heavily common turnips drilled in with superphosphate will prove a valuable crop.
I cannot too earnestly recommend the use of superphosphate as a manure for turnips.
Swede turnips or ruta-bagas, it will usually be necessary, in order to secure a maximum crop, to use a manure which, in addition to superphosphate, contains available nitrogen.
I have said before, superphosphate, when drilled in with the seed, has a wonderful effect in developing the root-growth of the young plants of turnips, and I thought it would have the same effect on lettuce, cabbage, cauliflowers, etc.
Dishes came in an unceasing stream, soups and terrines followed by pigeon en daube, a rack of lamb, sallets and greens and a dish of white turnips whipped to a froth which everyone pronounced a delight of rustic sophistication, and all the while rivers of wine poured from chilled jugs into glasses only half-empty.
We spent two days during a severe storm of rain and sleet in a farm-barn where the slaves were so drunk on applejack that they had forgotten us and left us with nothing to eat but raw turnips.