turnip

A widely cultivated Eurasian plant (Brassica rapa) of the mustard family, having a large rounded edible whitish root and edible leaves.

The root of this plant, eaten as a vegetable.

The thick fleshy root of the plant designated by Linnæus as Brassica Rapa, but now believed to be a variety, together with the rape (which see), of B. campestris, a plant found wild, in varieties corresponding to these plants, in Europe and Asiatic Russia (see navew); also, the plant itself, a common garden and field crop.

Same as Indian turnip.

(See also lion’s-turnip, prairie-turnip.)

The edible, fleshy, roundish, or somewhat conical, root of a cruciferous plant (Brassica campestris, var. Napus); also, the plant itself.

a kind of turnip. See Ruta-baga.

a small flea-beetle (Haltica, striolata syn. Phyllotreta striolata), which feeds upon the turnip, and often seriously injures it. It is black with a stripe of yellow on each elytron. The name is also applied to several other small insects which are injurious to turnips. See Illust. under Flea-beetle.

A two-winged fly (Anthomyia radicum) whose larvæ live in the turnip root.

The white root of a yellow-flowered plant, Brassica rapa, grown as a vegetable and as fodder for cattle.