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Navew :: Navew (n.) A kind of small turnip, a variety of Brassica campestris. See Brassica..

Napiform :: Napiform (a.) Turnip-shaped; large and round in the upper part, and very slender below..

Rape :: Rape (n.) 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..

Cruciferous :: Cruciferous (a.) 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..

Feed :: Feed (v. t.) 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..

Squally :: Squally (a.) Interrupted by unproductive spots; -- said of a flied of turnips or grain.

Turnip-shell :: Turnip-shell (n.) Any one of several large, thick, spiral marine shells belonging to Rapa and allied genera, somewhat turnip-shaped..

Pomme Blanche :: Pomme blanche () The prairie turnip. See under Prairie.

Ambury :: Ambury (n.) A disease of the roots of turnips, etc.; -- called also fingers and toes..

Shaw :: Shaw (n.) The leaves and tops of vegetables, as of potatoes, turnips, etc..

Flea-beetle :: Flea-beetle (n.) 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..

Brassica :: Brassica (n.) 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..

Celeriac :: Celeriac (n.) Turnip-rooted celery, a from of celery with a large globular root, which is used for food..

Napus :: Napus (n.) A kind of turnip. See Navew.

Vegetable :: Vegetable (n.) 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..

Turnep :: Turnep (n.) See Turnip.

Turnip :: Turnip (v. t.) The edible, fleshy, roundish, or somewhat conical, root of a cruciferous plant (Brassica campestris, var. Napus); also, the plant itself..

Swedenborgian :: Swede (n.) A Swedish turnip. See under Turnip.

Hooded :: Hooded (a.) Hood-shaped; esp. (Bot.), rolled up like a cornet of paper; cuculate, as the spethe of the Indian turnip..

Kohl-rabi :: Kohl-rabi (n.) 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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