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swedish turnip
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Swedish turnip
(gcide) | Swedish \Swed"ish\, a. [Cf. G. schwedisch, Sw. svensk.]
Of or pertaining to Sweden or its inhabitants.
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Swedish turnip. (Bot.) See under Turnip.
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Swedish turnip
(gcide) | Turnip \Tur"nip\ (t[^u]r"n[i^]p), n. [OE. turnep; probably fr.
turn, or F. tour a turn, turning lathe + OE. nepe a turnip,
AS. n[=ae]pe, L. napus. Cf. Turn, v. t., Navew.] (Bot.)
The edible, fleshy, roundish, or somewhat conical, root of a
cruciferous plant (Brassica campestris, var. Napus); also,
the plant itself. [Formerly written also turnep.]
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Swedish turnip (Bot.), a kind of turnip. See Ruta-baga.
Turnip flea (Zool.), a small flea-beetle ({Haltica,
striolata} syn. 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.
Turnip fly. (Zool.)
(a) The turnip flea.
(b) A two-winged fly (Anthomyia radicum) whose larvae live
in the turnip root.
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swedish turnip
(wn) | Swedish turnip
n 1: a cruciferous plant with a thick bulbous edible yellow root
[syn: rutabaga, turnip cabbage, swede, {Swedish
turnip}, rutabaga plant, Brassica napus napobrassica]
2: the large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food [syn:
rutabaga, swede, swedish turnip, yellow turnip] |
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