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/ˈtɜː.nɪp/ · noun
The white root of a yellow-flowered plant, Brassica rapa, grown as a vegetable and as fodder for cattle..
The ancient Roman gastronomists considered the turnip, when prepared in the following manner, a dish fit for epicures: "After boiling, extract the water from them, and season with cummin, rue, or benzoin, pounded in a mortar; afterward add honey, vinegar, gravy, and boiled grapes. Allow the whole to simmer, and serve."
In general, beets, carrots, and turnips are all of aphrodisiac value in erotic dietary.
The turnip is one of the lordliest vegetables in the world; its broth is practically a soup in itself.
"Dost thou not believe, thou twittering turnip?"
You absolute turnip, you. Hannah replaced the clipboard in her lap and pretended to write Very Serious notes. Thank God it was dark in the rear of the studio. No one could see the tomato-colored tidal wave surging up her neck.
This identical field has been turniped before, and to good account, in a favourable winter.
The Leicesters and half-breds are purchased by farmers who keep no breeding stock: they are well turniped during the winter, and clipped and fattened in the following season.
This system of turniping is found to encourage the growth and muscular development of young stock.
Use turnip when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Turnip means The white root of a yellow-flowered plant, Brassica rapa, grown as a vegetable and as fodder for cattle..
Common synonyms include summer turnip, white turnip, rutabaga, swede.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The ancient Roman gastronomists considered the turnip, when prepared in the following manner, a dish fit for epicures: "After boiling, extract the water from them, and season with cummin, rue, or benzoin, pounded in a mortar; afterward add honey, vinegar, gravy, and boiled grapes. Allow the whole to simmer, and serve."
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