Found 2 items, similar to swedish turnip.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: Swedish turnip Swedish turnip n 1: a cruciferous plant with a thick bulbous edible yellow root [syn: rutabaga, turnip cabbage, swede, rutabaga plant , Brassica napus napobrassica] 2: the large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food [syn: rutabaga, swede, yellow turnip]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Swedish turnip Swedish \Swed"ish\, a. [Cf. G. schwedisch, Sw. svensk.] Of or pertaining to Sweden or its inhabitants. [1913 Webster] Swedish turnip. (Bot.) See under Turnip. [1913 Webster] Turnip \Tur"nip\, n. [OE. turnep; probably fr. turn, or F. tour a turn, turning lathe + OE. nepe a turnip, AS. n[=ae]pe, L. napus. Cf. Turn,v. t., Navew.] (Bot.) The edible, fleshy, roundish, or somewhat conical, root of a cruciferous plant (Brassica campestris, var. Napus); also, the plant itself. [Formerly written also turnep.] [1913 Webster] Swedish turnip (Bot.), a kind of turnip. See Ruta-baga. Turnip flea (Zo["o]l.), 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. Turnip fly. (Zo["o]l.) (a) The turnip flea. (b) A two-winged fly (Anthomyia radicum) whose larv[ae] live in the turnip root. [1913 Webster]