Turnip n. (Formerly written also turnep) (Bot.) The edible, fleshy, roundish, or somewhat conical, root of a cruciferous plant (Brassica campestris, var. Napus); also, the plant itself.
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.
Turnip fly. (Zool.)
(a)
The turnip flea.
(b)
A two-winged fly (Anthomyia radicum) whose larvae live in the turnip root.
adjective
Swedish adj. Of or pertaining to Sweden or its inhabitants.
... of the country was held in the town-hall. Many of the vegetables were so large, that a description of them was treated with incredulity until some specimens were sent to Ottawa, to be modelled for the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. One Swedish turnip weighed over thirty-six pounds; some potatoes (early roses and white) measured nine inches long and seven in circumference; radishes were a foot and a half long and four inches 'round; kail branched out to the size of a currant bush; cabbages, hard, white, and good, grew to a foot and a half ... — A Trip to Manitoba • Mary FitzGibbon
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