noun
1. a cruciferous plant with a thick bulbous edible yellow root
• Syn: ↑rutabaga, ↑swede, ↑Swedish turnip, ↑rutabaga plant, ↑Brassica napus napobrassica
• Hypernyms: ↑turnip plant
• Member Holonyms: ↑Brassica, ↑genus Brassica
• Part Meronyms: ↑rutabaga, ↑swede, ↑swedish turnip, ↑yellow turnip
2. fleshy turnip-shaped edible stem of the kohlrabi plant
• Syn: ↑kohlrabi
• Hypernyms: ↑cruciferous vegetable
• Part Holonyms: ↑kohlrabi, ↑Brassica oleracea gongylodes
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noun1. : kohlrabi
2. : rutabaga
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kohlrabi.
[1755-65]
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turnip cabbage same as ↑kohlrabi
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Main Entry: ↑turnip
Useful english dictionary. 2012.