Swedish turnip


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Related to Swedish turnip: rutabagas, Brassica napobrassica

Swedish turnip

n.
See rutabaga.
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Noun1.Swedish turnip - a cruciferous plant with a thick bulbous edible yellow rootSwedish turnip - a cruciferous plant with a thick bulbous edible yellow root
Brassica napus napobrassica, rutabaga plant, turnip cabbage, swede, rutabaga
rutabaga, yellow turnip, swedish turnip, swede - the large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food
Brassica, genus Brassica - mustards: cabbages; cauliflowers; turnips; etc.
turnip plant - any of several widely cultivated plants having edible roots
2.Swedish turnip - the large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as foodswedish turnip - the large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food
rutabaga, yellow turnip, swede
turnip - root of any of several members of the mustard family
Brassica napus napobrassica, rutabaga plant, Swedish turnip, turnip cabbage, swede, rutabaga - a cruciferous plant with a thick bulbous edible yellow root
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In the vegetable kingdom we have a case of analogous variation, in the enlarged stems, or roots as commonly called, of the Swedish turnip and Ruta baga, plants which several botanists rank as varieties produced by cultivation from a common parent: if this be not so, the case will then be one of analogous variation in two so-called distinct species; and to these a third may be added, namely, the common turnip.
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At the other end of the scale there is the swede or, to give its full name, the Swedish turnip. I don't think the swede has ever been a fashionable vegetable and I am sure it has suffered because of its proximity to fodder crops for sheep and cattle.
Swede success easy to achieve; Garden Watch
It's a Swedish turnip or yellow turnip in the United States and turnip in Ireland, but in Scotland it's called "neep." In northeastern England, turnips and rutabagas are called "snaggers," so citizens there won't confuse them with another large beet known as a mangel-wurzel.
Rutabagas: the every-person root: easy to grow and good to eat, this unique vegetable will win you over

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