Turnip Synonyms

tûrnĭp
Widely cultivated plant having a large fleshy edible white or yellow root
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. rutabaga
  2. vegetable
  3. domestic turnip
  4. swedish turnip
  5. kohlrabi
  6. neep
  7. turnip cabbage
  8. white turnip
  9. Teltow turnip
  10. plant
  11. wild turnip
  12. indian turnip
  13. brassica-rapa

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Turnip Sentence Examples

  • If the turnip is dry, it is watered, each drop carefully metered out.

  • The valleys and slopes are carefully cultivated in fields divided by stone walls, and produce beans, peas, sweet potatoes, "Russian turnip radish," barley, a little rice and millet, the last being the staple article of diet.

  • Many years after that, some funny little verses about Mr. Finney's turnip were printed in a newspaper.

  • The cultivation of the turnip and other root crops, which require the soil to be wrought to a deep and free tilth, either becomes altdgether impracticable and must be abandoned for the safe but costly bare fallow, or is carried out with great labour and hazard; and the crop, when grown, can neither be removed from the ground, nor consumed upon it by sheep without damage by "poaching."

  • Instead, it is a large, open-air farm with a robot assigned to make each turnip be all that it can be.

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