Turnip
['tɜːnɪp] or ['tɝnɪp]
解释:
(noun.) root of any of several members of the mustard family.
(noun.) widely cultivated plant having a large fleshy edible white or yellow root.
录入:伦纳德--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) The edible, fleshy, roundish, or somewhat conical, root of a cruciferous plant (Brassica campestris, var. Napus); also, the plant itself.
哈里特编辑
解释:
n. a biennial plant with lyrate hispid leaves the upper part of the root becoming esp. in cultivation swollen and fleshy—cultivated as a culinary esculent and for feeding cattle and sheep.—n. Tur′nip-fly a muscid fly whose maggots burrow in turnip-roots.
整理:玛丽
娱乐性解释:
To see turnips growing, denotes that your prospects will brighten, and that you will be much elated over your success. To eat them is a sign of ill health. To pull them up, denotes that you will improve your opportunities and your fortune thereby. To eat turnip greens, is a sign of bitter disappointment. Turnip seed is a sign of future advancement. For a young woman to sow turnip seed, foretells that she will inherit good property, and win a handsome husband.
约翰娜编辑
例句:
- The finest seeds, such as grass and clover, onion and turnip seed, and delicate seed like rice, are handled and sown by machines without crushing or bruising, and with the utmost exactness. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Then there came a turnip, then a potato, and then an egg; with a few other little tokens of the playful disposition of the many-headed. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- I first become aware of myself down in Essex, a thieving turnips for my living. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- I dined with the King yesterday, and we had neck of mutton and turnips. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- The sight of those fields of stubble and turnips, now his own, gave him many secret joys. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- But he now reclined on his settle, taking very little notice of me, and talking principally about turnips. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- The greengrocer and his wife then arranged upon the table a boiled leg of mutton, hot, with caper sauce, turnips, and potatoes. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- It has been probably in this manner that the introduction of clover, turnips, carrots, cabbages, etc. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
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