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/ˈɹutəˌbeɪɡə/ · noun
(now Canada, US) The swede, or Swedish turnip; the European plant Brassica napus var. napobrassica.
They were both too hungry to wait for the yams and rutabagas to bake, so tonight they would have the frozen White Castle minicheeseburgers that Mr. Van Buren had won a year's supply of just before he passed away.
Sometimes your royal dogs tear down our thatch, And then we seek the shelter of a ditch; Hog-wash or grains, or ruta-baga, none Has yet been ours since your reign begun.
Chipper […] understood how his entire dinner might be scarfabl' in no time, his duties discharged and his freedom regained, and he actually picked up his fork and made a pass at the craggy wad of rutabaga […]
American kids ate very odd things in the 19th century. Spicy sauces and vinegary pickles. Shellfish and organ meats. Beets, rutabagas, collards.
Use rutabaga when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Rutabaga means (now Canada, US) The swede, or Swedish turnip; the European plant Brassica napus var. napobrassica.
Common synonyms include swede, Swedish turnip, turnip cabbage, brassica napus napobrassica.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
They were both too hungry to wait for the yams and rutabagas to bake, so tonight they would have the frozen White Castle minicheeseburgers that Mr. Van Buren had won a year's supply of just before he passed away.
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