Turnip
['tɜːnɪp] or ['tɝnɪp]
Definition
(noun.) root of any of several members of the mustard family.
(noun.) widely cultivated plant having a large fleshy edible white or yellow root.
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Definition
(v. t.) The edible, fleshy, roundish, or somewhat conical, root of a cruciferous plant (Brassica campestris, var. Napus); also, the plant itself.
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Definition
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.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
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.
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Examples
- 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. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- 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. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I first become aware of myself down in Essex, a thieving turnips for my living. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I dined with the King yesterday, and we had neck of mutton and turnips. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The sight of those fields of stubble and turnips, now his own, gave him many secret joys. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- But he now reclined on his settle, taking very little notice of me, and talking principally about turnips. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The greengrocer and his wife then arranged upon the table a boiled leg of mutton, hot, with caper sauce, turnips, and potatoes. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It has been probably in this manner that the introduction of clover, turnips, carrots, cabbages, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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