As nouns the difference between beetroot and turnip
is that beetroot is a normally deep red coloured cultivar of the beet. A root vegetable usually cooked or pickled before eating while turnip is the white root of a yellow-flowered plant, Brassica rapa, grown as a vegetable and as fodder for cattle.
beetroot
Alternative forms
* beet root
Noun
(
en noun)
A normally deep red coloured cultivar of the beet. A root vegetable usually cooked or pickled before eating.
Synonyms
* red beet
* table beet
Derived terms
* red as a beetroot
Anagrams
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turnip
English
Noun
(
en noun)
The white root of a yellow-flowered plant, Brassica rapa , grown as a vegetable and as fodder for cattle.
(Scotland, Ireland, Cornwall, Atlantic Canada) The yellow root of a related plant, the swede or Brassica napus .
Synonyms
* (Brassica rapa) (summer turnip), swede (Ireland, Northern England, Scotland), tumshie (Scotland), white turnip (Cornwall, Scotland)
Derived terms
* fall off the turnip truck
* Swedish turnip
* (turnip flea)
* (turnip fly)
See also
* rutabaga
* swede
* turnip greens
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