Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The tuberbearing plant Psoralea esculenta.
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Examples
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[43] _Tipsânna_ (often called _tipsinna_) is a wild prairie-turnip used for food by the Dakotas.
The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems Hanford Lennox Gordon 1878
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Lucien, seeing that there were several kinds of plants growing on the margin of the rivulet, went down to examine them -- in hopes that he might find the wild onion or the prairie-turnip among them, or perhaps some other root or vegetable that might help to enrich their pottage.
The Boy Hunters Mayne Reid 1850
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The pinons afforded their farinaceous cones, the agave yielded its esculent roots, and the prairie-turnip grew upon the borders of the runlet.
The Boy Hunters Mayne Reid 1850
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