turnip cabbage

Questions about turnip cabbage

What does turnip cabbage mean?

turnip cabbage 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 turnip cabbage?

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

turnip cabbage 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.