turnip A2 Topic:Food & Drink US /ˈtɜːrnɪp/ UK /ˈtɜːnɪp/ See IPA manual Meanings 1 noun a round root vegetable with white flesh and purple, red, or greenish skin, eaten as a vegetable She added diced turnip to the stew for extra flavor. 2 noun a plant of the cabbage family grown for its edible root and leaves Farmers harvested turnip crops in the autumn. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 noun · a round root vegetable with... rutabagaswederoottuber 2 noun · a plant of the cabbage... brassicaroot croptuberbulb Common collocations swedish turnip Adjective + noun Etymology AI details From Middle English turnepe, apparently a compound whose second element is Old English nǣp 'turnip' (from Latin napus); the root vegetable of the cabbage family. Topics Food & Drink Plants & Agriculture External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # turnip **Type:** Word **Level:** A2 **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /ˈtɜːrnɪp/ **IPA (UK):** /ˈtɜːnɪp/ ## Meanings 1. a round root vegetable with white flesh and purple, red, or greenish skin, eaten as a vegetable 2. a plant of the cabbage family grown for its edible root and leaves ## Examples - She added diced turnip to the stew for extra flavor. - Farmers harvested turnip crops in the autumn. ## Synonyms - rutabaga - swede - root - tuber - brassica - root crop - bulb ## Etymology From Middle English turnepe, apparently a compound whose second element is Old English nǣp 'turnip' (from Latin napus); the root vegetable of the cabbage family. ## AI Etymology Turnip comes from Middle English turnepe, apparently a compound whose second element is Old English nǣp 'turnip' (from Latin napus); the root vegetable of the cabbage family. In current use it is a noun meaning "a round root vegetable with white flesh and purple, red, or greenish skin, eaten as a vegetable". That sense is explained by the older material without requiring a speculative semantic step: the inherited or borrowed base supplies the field of meaning, while the English formation fixes its modern role. The surface form is compositional: its joined elements remain visible in the modern word. The word's history is thus visible in its construction: the components remain interpretable even after the whole expression has settled into a conventional English meaning. ## Topics - Food & Drink - Plants & Agriculture markdown