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English Dictionary: turnip	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for turnip
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
turnip n widely cultivated plant having a large fleshy edible white or yellow root Synonym(s): turnip, white turnip, Brassica rapa root of any of several members of the mustard family
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Turnip \Tur"nip\, n. [OE. turnep; probably fr. turn, or F. tour a turn, turning lathe + OE. nepe a turnip, AS. n[aemac]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}.] {Swedish turnip} (Bot.), a kind of turnip. See {Ruta-baga}. {Turnip flea} (Zo[94]l.), a small flea-beetle ({Haltica, [or] 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}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The turnip flea. (b) A two-winged fly ({Anthomyia radicum}) whose larv[91] live in the turnip root.