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The prairie turnip. See under Prairie.
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A small beetle of the family Halticidae, of many species. They have strong posterior legs and leap like fleas. The turnip flea-beetle (Phyllotreta vittata) and that of the grapevine (Graptodera chalybea) are common injurious species.
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Interrupted by unproductive spots; -- said of a flied of turnips or grain.
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A name given to a variety or to varieties of a plant of the turnip kind, grown for seeds and herbage. The seeds are used for the production of rape oil, and to a limited extent for the food of cage birds.
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A kind of turnip commonly with a large and long or ovoid yellowish root; a Swedish turnip. See Turnip.
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The edible, fleshy, roundish, or somewhat conical, root of a cruciferous plant (Brassica campestris, var. Napus); also, the plant itself.
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A variety of cabbage, in which the edible part is a large, turnip-shaped swelling of the stem, above the surface of the ground.
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A Swedish turnip. See under Turnip.
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To give for food, especially to animals; to furnish for consumption; as, to feed out turnips to the cows; to feed water to a steam boiler.
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Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants which have four petals arranged like the arms of a cross, as the mustard, radish, turnip, etc.
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See Turnip.
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A genus of plants embracing several species and varieties differing much in appearance and qualities: such as the common cabbage (B. oleracea), broccoli, cauliflowers, etc.; the wild turnip (B. campestris); the common turnip (B. rapa); the rape or coleseed (B. napus), etc.
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The leaves and tops of vegetables, as of potatoes, turnips, etc.
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A kind of small turnip, a variety of Brassica campestris. See Brassica.
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Any one of several large, thick, spiral marine shells belonging to Rapa and allied genera, somewhat turnip-shaped.
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Turnip-rooted celery, a from of celery with a large globular root, which is used for food.
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A kind of turnip. See Navew.
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Hood-shaped; esp. (Bot.), rolled up like a cornet of paper; cuculate, as the spethe of the Indian turnip.
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Turnip-shaped; large and round in the upper part, and very slender below.
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A plant used or cultivated for food for man or domestic animals, as the cabbage, turnip, potato, bean, dandelion, etc.; also, the edible part of such a plant, as prepared for market or the table.
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