Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The Swedish turnip, a probable derivative, with the rape and common turnip. of Brassica campestris.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A kind of turnip commonly with a large and long or ovoid yellowish root; a Swedish turnip. See
turnip .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a cruciferous plant with a thick bulbous edible yellow root
- noun the large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food
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Examples
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The ruta-baga is looking unusually well this fall, but we cannot subsist entirely upon the ruta-baga.
Remarks Bill Nye 1873
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The seed of ruta-baga, or Swedish turnips, should be planted earliest -- from the twentieth of June to the tenth of July in our latitude.
The Home Acre Edward Payson Roe 1863
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Several kinds of Turnips are cultivated in this Province; the best of which is the ruta-baga, or Swedish turnip.
History of New Brunswick Peter Fisher 1815
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