swedish turnip

1. 1.

   a cruciferous plant with a thick bulbous edible yellow root

   Synonymsrutabagaturnip cabbageswederutabaga plantBrassica napus napobrassica

   Broaderturnip plant

   Part ofBrassica

   Partsrutabaga
2. 2.

   the large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food

   Synonymsrutabagaswedeyellow turnip

   Broaderturnip

   Part ofrutabaga

Questions about swedish turnip

What does swedish turnip mean?

swedish turnip means "a cruciferous plant with a thick bulbous edible yellow root". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for swedish turnip?

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

swedish 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.