rutabaga

1. 1.

   the large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food

   Synonymsswedeswedish turnipyellow turnip

   Broaderturnip
2. 2.

   a cruciferous plant with a thick bulbous edible yellow root

   Synonymsturnip cabbageswedeSwedish turniprutabaga plantBrassica napus napobrassica

   Broaderturnip plant

   Part ofBrassica

Other forms of rutabaga

plural

rutabagas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about rutabaga

What does rutabaga mean?

rutabaga means "the large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rutabaga?

rutabaga has 4 syllables: ru-ta-ba-ga. The stress falls on "ru". In IPA it is /ˈɹutəbeɪɡə/.

What is another word for rutabaga?

Close synonyms include swede, swedish turnip, yellow turnip, turnip cabbage, swede. 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 rutabaga a common word?

rutabaga is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.