white turnip

Questions about white turnip

What does white turnip mean?

white 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.

What is another word for white turnip?

Close synonyms include 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 white turnip a common word?

white turnip 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.