rutabaga plant

Questions about rutabaga plant

What does rutabaga plant mean?

rutabaga plant means "a cruciferous plant with a thick bulbous edible yellow root".

What is another word for rutabaga plant?

Close synonyms include rutabaga, turnip cabbage, swede, Swedish turnip, Brassica napus napobrassica. 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 plant a common word?

rutabaga plant 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.