devil's turnip

1. 1.

   white-flowered vine having thick roots and bearing small black berries; Europe to Iran

   Synonymswhite bryonyBryonia alba

   Broaderbryony

Questions about devil's turnip

What does devil's turnip mean?

devil's turnip means "white-flowered vine having thick roots and bearing small black berries; Europe to Iran".

What is another word for devil's turnip?

Close synonyms include white bryony, Bryonia alba. 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 devil's turnip a common word?

devil's turnip 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.