[
US
/ˈtɝnəp/
]
[ UK /tˈɜːnɪp/ ]
[ UK /tˈɜːnɪp/ ]
NOUN
- root of any of several members of the mustard family
- widely cultivated plant having a large fleshy edible white or yellow root
How To Use turnip In A Sentence
- Each item was skewered on a cocktail stick and laid like sun rays around the plate, which also had a flower intricately carved out of turnip for decoration.
- The addition of the peppery radishes is a new twist on the classic idea of using baby turnips.
- Without wishing to be unkind, it was student vegetable gloop (carrot, courgette, mushroom, turnip and barley in tomato sauce) with little herby scone things on the top.
- Siberia a country in which nothing will grow; in some parts there is wheat, and where _wheat_ will not grow _barley_ will, and where _barley_ will not grow _turnips_ will. Far Off
- What difference, one might ask, is there between a turnip crisp and a potato crisp in terms of its "junkiness" or otherwise? Lex Ferenda
- Women gathered roots, prairie turnips, bitterroot, and camas bulbs in the early summer.
- He maun be a saft sap, wi 'a head nae better than a fozy frosted turnip --- it wad hae ta'en a hantle o' them to scaur Andrew Rob Roy
- This enabled cattle and sheep to crop on sown grass and turnips - with the land limed and manured as part of a rotation.
- Scatter the uncooked turnip pieces over the spinach, then scatter the leeks.
- A white couscous, with mutton and chicken and turnips and carrots. Times, Sunday Times