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 Definitions of turnip  [ˈtɜr nɪp]  

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Definition of 'turnip' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) turnip
the thick, fleshy root of either of two plants of the mustard family, the white-fleshed Brassica rapa, or the yellow-fleshed rutabaga, B. napobrassica, eaten as a vegetable.

2.  turnip
either of these two plants, the leaves of which are sometimes eaten as a vegetable.

Etymology:  (1525–35; earlier turnep(e)=turn (with reference to its neatly rounded shape) +nepe turnip (OE

Definition of 'turnip' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) turnip, white turnip, Brassica rapa
widely cultivated plant having a large fleshy edible white or yellow root

2. (noun) turnip
root of any of several members of the mustard family


Definition of 'turnip' Webster Dictionary 

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


Translation of 'turnip' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: a type of plant with a large round root
a field of turnips.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: raap Arabic flag Arabic: نَبات اللفْت Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: ряпа
Brazilian flag Brazilian: nabo Czech flag Czech: vodnice German flag German: die Rübe
Danish flag Danish: kålroe Greek flag Greek: γογγύλι Spanish flag Spanish: nabo
Estonian flag Estonian: naeris Farsi flag Farsi: شلغم Finnish flag Finnish: nauris
French flag French: navet Hebrew flag Hebrew: לֶפֶת Hindi flag Hindi: शलजम, शलगम
Croatian flag Croatian: repa Hungarian flag Hungarian: répa Indonesian flag Indonesian: lobak
Icelandic flag Icelandic: næpa Italian flag Italian: rapa Japanese flag Japanese: かぶ
Korean flag Korean: 순무 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: ropė Latvian flag Latvian: rācenis
Malay flag Malay: pokok lobak putih Dutch flag Dutch: raap Norwegian flag Norwegian: nepe, turnips
Polish flag Polish: rzepa Persian flag Persian: شلغم Pashto flag Pashto: شلغم
Portuguese flag Portuguese: nabo Romanian flag Romanian: nap Russian flag Russian: репа
Slovak flag Slovak: tekvica Slovenian flag Slovenian: repa Serbian flag Serbian: bela repa
Swedish flag Swedish: rova Thai flag Thai: ต้นหัวผักกาด Turkish flag Turkish: şalgam
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 蘿蔔 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: ріпа, турнепс Urdu flag Urdu: شلجم کا پودا
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: cây củ cải Chinese flag Chinese: 萝卜

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