Model stills are ubiquitous; little turnip-shaped things built of copper and mounted onto a varnished plank with miniature dollhouse campfires under their boilers. ❋ MAX WATMAN (2010)
Instead of classic, copper, turnip-shaped pot stills, they devised and built the black pot submarine still, a rough, slapdash job made from a couple of sheets of galvanized metal and some poplar planking. ❋ MAX WATMAN (2010)
The jicama (Pachyrizus erosus) is a tuberous legume grown for its turnip-shaped roots, which can grow to a weight of fifty pounds, although those found in the markets average from three to five pounds. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Tuberous roots, frequently turnip-shaped, are borne at the base of the stem, and may be solitary or several, simple or compound; normally they are about 10-15 cm in diameter. ❋ Unknown (1987)
The creature was lying on the floor, with a turnip-shaped thing over its head, tubes trailing from it to an opened cabinet in the wall. ❋ Damon Francis Knight (1962)
From the fresh plant, choosing a large Spanish Radish, with a turnip-shaped root, and a black outer skin, and collected in the autumn, a medicinal tincture (H.) is made with spirit of wine. ❋ William Thomas Fernie (N/A)
"If you wouldn't mind accepting it," said Josiah, pulling out his fine old turnip-shaped time-piece, "as a memento of our friendship -- which, though brief, has I trust been sincere -- it would give me great pleasure." ❋ Various (N/A)
KOHLRABI is a variety of cabbage having a turnip-shaped stem. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Peel turnip-shaped globe; cut into small pieces; cover with boiling water and boil until tender, 30 to 35 minutes. ❋ New York Royal Baking Powder Company (N/A)
As an awn from a bearded head of barley will win its disputed way up one's sleeve, and gain a point in advance despite all effort to stop or expel it, so did every resolution, every reflection, counteract the very purpose it was summoned to oppose, and to my sorrow I would taste the drastic, turnip-shaped corm wherever opportunity occurred. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
How he had longed for a watch, just such a turnip-shaped one, and a paint-box. ❋ Hugh Walpole (1912)
One by one they began to draw out turnip-shaped watches from their fobs, and having first held the case to their ears to make sure that there was no deception, the dial was examined, and with a casual, "Guid nicht to ye -- the goodwife will be waitin '," the members of the town council and other municipal dignitaries strolled off each to his own house. ❋ Unknown (1887)
The name, kabutsuchi, supports this theory, kabu being the term for "turnip," which is also found in kabuya, a humming arrow having a turnip-shaped head perforated with holes. ❋ Dairoku Kikuchi (1886)
