How to pronounce“turnip”in English
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Definitions of “turnip”
The white root of a yellow-flowered plant, Brassica rapa, grown as a vegetable and as fodder for cattle.
“The ancient Roman gastronomists considered the turnip, when prepared in the following manner, a dish fit for epicures: "After boiling, extract the water from them, and season with cummin, rue, or benzoin, pounded in a mortar; afterward add honey, vinegar, gravy, and boiled grapes. Allow the whole to simmer, and serve."”
To plant with turnips.
“This identical field has been turniped before, and to good account, in a favourable winter.”
To feed or graze (livestock) on turnips.
“The Leicesters and half-breds are purchased by farmers who keep no breeding stock: they are well turniped during the winter, and clipped and fattened in the following season.”