turnip
/ˈtɝ.nɪp/ noun B1- The white root of a yellow-flowered plant, Brassica rapa, grown as a vegetable and as fodder for cattle.
- The white root of Raphanus sativus var. longipinnatus, also known as a daikon.
- The root of the yam bean, Pachyrhizus erosus; jicama.
- A fool or simpleton.
Plural turnips
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Thomas Lynde--a meek little man whom Avonlea people called “Rachel Lynde’s husband”--was sowing his late turnip seed on the hill field beyond the barn; and Matthew Cuthbert ought to have been sowing his on the big red brook field away over by Green Gables.
Blair’s store over at Carmody that he meant to sow his turnip seed the next afternoon.
“He doesn’t generally go to town this time of year and he _never_ visits; if he’d run out of turnip seed he wouldn’t dress up and take the buggy to go for more; he wasn’t driving fast enough to be going for a doctor.
He has a very big turnip.
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