noun
1. widely cultivated plant having a large fleshy edible white or yellow root
• Syn: ↑turnip, ↑Brassica rapa
• Hypernyms: ↑turnip plant
• Member Holonyms: ↑Brassica, ↑genus Brassica
• Part Meronyms: ↑turnip greens
2. white root of a turnip plant
• Hypernyms: ↑turnip
• Part Holonyms: ↑turnip, ↑Brassica rapa
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the turnip, Brassica rapa.
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white turnip,
a kind of broad turnip with hairy leaves.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.