turnip

  1. Noun.  The white root of a yellow-flowered plant, ''Brassica rapa'', grown as a vegetable and as fodder for cattle.
  2. Noun.  (Scotland, Ireland) The yellow root of a related plant, the swede or ''Brassica napus''.

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