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How to pronounce turnip in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms brassica rapa, white turnip
Type of turnip plant
Type Words
Type of root vegetable, cruciferous vegetable
Has types yellow turnip, rutabaga, swede, swedish turnip, white turnip

Examples of turnip

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Look no further than New Year's Day turnip greens and a dish of black-eyed peas.
From the dailyherald.com
Lade Conlee of Kingston Springs used turnip greens to entice this 15-point buck.
From the tennessean.com
In the early 1990s, Walmart hadn't jumped on the turnip truck for local produce.
From the theatlantic.com
Baby beet greens, mustard greens, turnip greens and kale are often used this way.
From the ocregister.com
Turnip greens are excellent sources of vitamins A and C, magnesium and calcium.
From the al.com
When making a pot of vegetable soup, peel and dice a turnip to add to the soup.
From the toledoblade.com
Turnip greens and salt pork instead of bok choy, peanut oil and marinated pork.
From the ocregister.com
Families also receive a smaller amount of peas, spinach, turnip and tomato seeds.
From the sacbee.com
They get kitchen scraps and stuff from the garden like turnip tops every day too.
From the guardian.co.uk
More examples
  • Widely cultivated plant having a large fleshy edible white or yellow root
  • Root of any of several members of the mustard family
  • The turnip or white turnip (Brassica rapa var. rapa) is a root vegetable commonly grown in temperate climates worldwide for its white, bulbous taproot. Small, tender varieties are grown for human consumption, while larger varieties are grown as feed for livestock.
  • The following are characters from the PlayStation game Chrono Cross.
  • Turnip can refer to three vegetables, which are described under the articles Turnip, Rutabaga, and Jicama. The confusion results from the following regional differences of usage.
  • The Turnip is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in Grimm's Fairy Tales as tale number 146.
  • The white root of a yellow-flowered plant, Brassica rapa, grown as a vegetable and as fodder for cattle; The yellow root of a related plant, the swede or Brassica napus
  • (Turnips) To obtain mild and delicately-flavoured Turnips a somewhat light, sandy, but deep, rich soil is necessary. For a first crop sow the Early White Dutch variety in February or the beginning of March on a warm border. ...
  • To see turnips growing, denotes that your prospects will brighten, and that you will be much elated over your success. To eat them is a sign of ill health. To pull them up, denotes that you will improve your opportunities and your fortune thereby. ...