turnip
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
turnip (plural turnips)
- The white root of a yellow-flowered plant, Brassica rapa, grown as a vegetable and as fodder for cattle.
- (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, Cornwall, Atlantic Canada) The yellow root of a related plant, the swede or Brassica napus.
- (dated) A large, heavy pocket watch, so called because its profile resembled the vegetable.
- (Brassica rapa) summer turnip, white turnip (Cornwall, Scotland)
- (Brassica napus) rutabaga (North America), swede (Ireland, Northern England, Scotland), tumshie (Scotland)
- French: navet
- German: Mairübe, Speiserübe, Mairübchen, Rübe, Steckrübe, Herbstrübe, Wasserrübe, Stoppelrübe, Halmrübe, Bayrische Rübe, Kugelrettich, Teltower Rübchen, Rübsen, Rüben-Kohl, Ackerkohl, Weiße Rübe, Weiße Rübe, Rübsamen
- Italian: rapa
- Portuguese: nabo
- Russian: ре́па
- Spanish: nabo
- German: Zwiebel
turnip (turnips, present participle turniping; past and past participle turniped)
- (transitive) To plant with turnips.
- 1803, Agricultural Magazine (volume 9, page 32)
- This identical field has been turniped before, and to good account, in a favourable winter.
- 1803, Agricultural Magazine (volume 9, page 32)
- (transitive) To feed or graze (livestock) on turnips.
- 1869, Sheep: Their Breeds, Management, and Diseases (page 328)
- The Leicesters and half-breds are purchased by farmers who keep no breeding stock: they are well turniped during the winter, and clipped and fattened in the following season.
- 1869, Sheep: Their Breeds, Management, and Diseases (page 328)
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