brassica rapa

Questions about brassica rapa

What does brassica rapa mean?

brassica rapa means "widely cultivated plant having a large fleshy edible white or yellow root".

What is another word for brassica rapa?

Close synonyms include turnip, white turnip. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is brassica rapa a common word?

brassica rapa is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.