Turnip

What do we mean by turnip?

A widely cultivated Eurasian plant (Brassica rapa) of the mustard family, having a large rounded edible whitish root and edible leaves. noun

The root of this plant, eaten as a vegetable. noun

The thick fleshy root of the plant designated by Linnæus as Brassica Rapa, but now believed to be a variety, together with the rape (which see), of B. campestris, a plant found wild, in varieties corresponding to these plants, in Europe and Asiatic Russia (see navew); also, the plant itself, a common garden and field crop. noun

Same as Indian turnip. noun

(See also lion's-turnip, prairie-turnip.) noun

The edible, fleshy, roundish, or somewhat conical, root of a cruciferous plant (Brassica campestris, var. Napus); also, the plant itself. noun

A kind of turnip. See Ruta-baga. noun

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. noun

A two-winged fly (Anthomyia radicum) whose larvæ live in the turnip root. noun

The white root of a yellow-flowered plant, Brassica rapa, grown as a vegetable and as fodder for cattle. noun

The yellow root of a related plant, the swede or Brassica napus. noun

Widely cultivated plant having a large fleshy edible white or yellow root noun

Root of any of several members of the mustard family noun

The white root of a yellow-flowered plant, Brassica rapa, grown as a vegetable and as fodder for cattle.

The yellow root of a related plant, the swede or Brassica napus.

A large, heavy pocket watch, so called because its profile resembled the vegetable.

Words that are spelled similarly to turnip:
turnip, turnix, turnup, turnep, tunip.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word turnip:
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Words that rhyme with turnip:
turn up, burn up, turnup, churn up, turn-up, burn-up, burnap, concern up, earn up, learn up, return up, stern up.

Adjectives that are often used to describe turnip:
indian, swedish, white, common, large, wild, raw, yellow, small, big, old, little, boiled, mashed, enormous, single, pickled, huge, flat, giant, rotten, french, sized, ordinary, red, frozen, salted, grated, sweet, sliced, fresh, round, english, poor, top, sacred, baked, hollow, inverted, chopped, dried, frosted, medium, chinese, gigantic, fozy, cold, largest, diced, fleshed, humble, dutch, juicy, foolish, cooked, salty, purple, nice, green, unripe, swede, unhappy, lowly, wicked, pallid, roasted, wonderful, fat, scarlet, proverbial, stewed, golden, hardy, scooped, chronicled, leafy, cultivated, worth, tiny, stubborn, immense.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective turnip:
greens, seed, virus, tops, field, fields, soup, land, juice, winter, mosaic, head, fly, cabbage, truck, moth, leaves, root, seeds, crop, infusion, ghost, cutter, salad, hoer, hoeing, rna, family, season, cart, culture, aphid, beetle, radish, hoers, soil, patch, lantern, rooted, watch, manure, cutters, slicer, lanterns, shape, husbandry, face, roots, ground, cultivation, ghosts, fallow, green, plants, crinkle, crops, radishes, drill, store, slicers, flower, heads, slices, nose, flea, lands, feed, mixture, taste, peel, drillers, puree, soils, seedlings, herbage, viruses, patches, cheese, farm, sauce, sowing, protein, pit, peelings, stealers, bed, pie, diet, feeding, plant, tubes, flies, chrysanthemum, growing, tribe, flavor.

Consonant match to turnip:
turn up, tune-up, tuneup, tune up, turnup, turn-up, ton up, tone up, ten up.

Words that sound like turnip:
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