turnip

1. 1.

   widely cultivated plant having a large fleshy edible white or yellow root

   Synonymswhite turnipBrassica rapa

   Broaderturnip plant

   Part ofBrassica

   Partswhite turnipturnip greens
2. 2.

   root of any of several members of the mustard family

   Broaderroot vegetablecruciferous vegetable

   Narrowerwhite turniprutabaga

   Part ofturnip plant

Other forms of turnip

plural

turnips·

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 turnip

What does turnip mean?

turnip means "widely cultivated plant having a large fleshy edible white or yellow root". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in turnip?

turnip has 2 syllables: tur-nip. The stress falls on "tur". In IPA it is /ˈtɝnəp/.

What is another word for turnip?

Close synonyms include white turnip, Brassica rapa. 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 turnip a common word?

turnip is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.