turnip

Meanings

1. 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. 2
   noun

   a plant of the cabbage family grown for its edible root and leaves

   Farmers harvested turnip crops in the autumn.

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.

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