Indian turnip

How To Use Indian turnip In A Sentence

• There were two species -- one that resembled a small turnip, and, in fact, was the Indian turnip (_psoralea esculenta_), while the other was the wild onion found in many parts of The Boy Hunters
• It was a wake-robin, commonly known as dragonroot, devil's ear, or Indian turnip. Margaret
• In heating the Indian turnip and other corms, it was found that the heat applied must be sufficient to change the character of the starch or the so-called acridity was not destroyed. Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86
• Wild ginger (asarum) is also an article of considerable trade, as well as several kinds of snake root, pink root, puccoon, hellebore, lady's slipper, spikenard, Indian turnip, Indian hemp, and a hundred others. A Guide to Capitalists and Emigrants: Being a Statistical and Descriptive Account of the Several Counties of the State of North Carolina, United States of America; Together with Letters of Prominent Citizens of the State in Relation to the Soil, Climate,
• This opinion was opposed by Prof. Burrill and other eminent botanists, who claimed that other plants, as the fuchsia, are not at all acrid, although they contain raphides as plentifully as the Indian turnip. Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
• Accordingly, four plants containing raphides were selected, two of which, the _Calla cassia_ and Indian turnip, were highly acrid, and two, the _Fuchsia_ and _Tradescantia_, or Wandering Jew, were perfectly bland to the taste. Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
• He often sallies out into the open ground; and on those prairies where grows the _pomme blanche_, or "Indian turnip" (_psoralea esculenta_), he may be seen tearing up the earth with his claws, and leaving it turned into furrows -- as if a drove of hogs had been "rooting" the ground. Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt