different between rutabaga vs turnips

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

Noun

turnips

1. plural of turnip

Verb

turnips

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of turnip

Anagrams

• Turpins, turpins, unstrip