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turnip
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)
- 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.
- (Hong Kong) The white root of Raphanus sativus var. longipinnatus, also known as a daikon.
- (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)
- (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)
References
Anagrams
- Turpin, turpin
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turnipy
English
Adjective
turnipy (comparative more turnipy, superlative most turnipy)
- Alternative form of turnippy
- 1852, The New Monthly Magazine (page 310)
- I don't know any quarter in England where you get such undeniable mutton—mutton that eats like mutton, instead of the nasty watery, stringy, turnipy stuff, neither mutton nor lamb, that other countries are inundated with.
- 1852, The New Monthly Magazine (page 310)
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