turnip : Idioms & Phrases

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devil's turnip

  • noun white-flowered vine having thick roots and bearing small black berries; Europe to Iran
    white bryony; Bryonia alba.
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Indian turnip

  • noun common American spring-flowering woodland herb having sheathing leaves and an upright club-shaped spadix with overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet berries
    Arisaema atrorubens; wake-robin; jack-in-the-pulpit; Arisaema triphyllum.
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  • (Bot.), an American plant of the genus Arisæma. A. triphyllum has a wrinkled farinaceous root resembling a small turnip, but with a very acrid juice. See Jack in the Pulpit, and Wake-robin.
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Prairie turnip

  • (Bot.), the edible turnip-shaped farinaceous root of a leguminous plant (Psoralea esculenta) of the Upper Missouri region; also, the plant itself. Called also pomme blanche, and pomme de prairie.
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Saint Anthony's turnip

  • (Bot.), the bulbous crowfoot, a favorite food of swine. Dr. Prior.
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Swedish turnip

  • noun a cruciferous plant with a thick bulbous edible yellow root
    rutabaga plant; rutabaga; Brassica napus napobrassica; Swedish turnip; swede.
  • noun the large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food
    swedish turnip; swede; rutabaga.
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  • (Bot.), a kind of turnip. See Ruta-baga.
Webster 1913

turnip bed

  • noun a bed in which turnips are growing
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turnip cabbage

  • noun a cruciferous plant with a thick bulbous edible yellow root
    rutabaga plant; rutabaga; Brassica napus napobrassica; Swedish turnip; swede.
  • noun fleshy turnip-shaped edible stem of the kohlrabi plant
    kohlrabi.
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Turnip flea

  • (Zoöl.), a small flea-beetle (Haltica, ∨ Phyllotreta, striolata), which feeds upon the turnip, and often seriously injures it. It is black with a stripe of yellow on each elytron. The name is also applied to several other small insects which are injurious to turnips. See Illust. under Flea-beetle.
Webster 1913

Turnip fly

  • . (Zoöl.) (a) The turnip flea. (b) A two-winged fly (Anthomyia radicum) whose larvæ live in the turnip root.
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turnip greens

  • noun tender leaves of young white turnips
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turnip plant

  • noun any of several widely cultivated plants having edible roots
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turnip-rooted celery

  • noun grown for its thickened edible aromatic root
    Apium graveolens rapaceum; root celery; celery root; knob celery; celeriac.
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turnip-rooted parsley

  • noun parsley with smooth leaves and enlarged edible taproot resembling a savory parsnip
    Hamburg parsley; Petroselinum crispum tuberosum.
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turnip-shaped

  • adjective satellite shaped in the form of a turnip
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turnip-shell

Tur"nip-shell" noun
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  1. (Zoöl.) Any one of several large, thick, spiral marine shells belonging to Rapa and allied genera, somewhat turnip-shaped.
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white turnip

  • noun widely cultivated plant having a large fleshy edible white or yellow root
    Brassica rapa; turnip.
  • noun white root of a turnip plant
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yellow turnip

  • noun the large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food
    swedish turnip; swede; rutabaga.
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