noun
the large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food
• Syn: ↑rutabaga, ↑swede, ↑yellow turnip
• Hypernyms: ↑turnip
• Part Holonyms: ↑rutabaga, ↑turnip cabbage, ↑swede, ↑Swedish turnip, ↑rutabaga plant, ↑Brassica napus napobrassica
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nounUsage: usually capitalized S
: rutabaga
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rutabaga.
[1800-10; so called because introduced into Great Britain from Sweden]
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Swedish turnip,
= rutabaga. (Cf. ↑rutabaga)
Useful english dictionary. 2012.