different between rutabaga vs turnip

English

Alternative forms

• ruta-baga

Etymology

1799, borrowed from Swedish rotabagge, a dialectal word from Västergötland, from rot (“root”) +? bagge (“lump, bunch”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??ut??be???/

Noun

rutabaga (usually uncountable, plural rutabagas)

1. (now Canada, US) the swede, or Swedish turnip; the European plant Brassica napus var. napobrassica
2. (now Canada, US) the edible root of this plant
   • 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:

     Sometimes your royal dogs tear down our thatch,
     And then we seek the shelter of a ditch;
     Hog-wash or grains, or ruta-baga, none
     Has yet been ours since your reign begun.

Synonyms

• swede, Swedish turnip

Translations

References

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?y.ta.ba.?a/

Noun

rutabaga m (plural rutabagas)

1. swede, rutabaga (yellow root of Brassica napus)

Further reading

• “rutabaga” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Portuguese

Noun

rutabaga f (plural rutabagas)

1. rutabaga (Brassica napus, a plant with an edible root)

   Synonyms: colza, nabo da Suécia, couve-nabiça, couve-nabo

English

Etymology

From Middle English turnepe, probably from turn + Middle English nepe, from Old English n?p, from Latin n?pus. The component turn may be due to the round shape of the plant as though turned on a lathe, or because it must be turned and twisted to be harvested. Cognate to neep. See also parsnip.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t??.n?p/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?t??.n?p/

Noun

turnip (plural turnips)

1. The white root of a yellow-flowered plant, Brassica rapa, grown as a vegetable and as fodder for cattle.
2. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, Cornwall, Atlantic Canada) The yellow root of a related plant, the swede or Brassica napus.
3. (Hong Kong) The white root of Raphanus sativus var. longipinnatus, also known as a daikon.
4. (dated) A large, heavy pocket watch, so called because its profile resembled the vegetable.

Synonyms

• (Brassica rapa): summer turnip, white turnip (Cornwall, Scotland)
• (Brassica napus): rutabaga (North America), swede (Ireland, Northern England, Scotland), tumshie (Scotland)
• (Raphanus sativus var. longipinnatus): see daikon

Derived terms

• fall off the turnip truck
• Swedish turnip (Brassica napus)
• turnip watch
• turnip flea beetle (Phyllotreta undulata)
• turnip fly (Delia radicum)
• turnipy
• Turnip yellow mosaic virus

Translations

Descendants

• ? German: Turnip
• ? Irish: tornapa
• ? Russian: ??????? (turneps)

See also

• rutabaga
• swede
• turnip greens

Verb

turnip (third-person singular simple present turnips, present participle turniping or turnipping, simple past and past participle turniped or turnipped)

1. (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.

2. (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.

References

Anagrams

• Turpin, turpin