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Lettuce vs Turnip - What's the difference?

lettuce | turnip |

As nouns the difference between lettuce and turnip

is that lettuce is an edible plant, lactuca sativa and its close relatives, having a head of green and/or purple leaves while turnip is the white root of a yellow-flowered plant, brassica rapa , grown as a vegetable and as fodder for cattle.

lettuce

English

(wikipedia lettuce)

Noun

  • An edible plant, Lactuca sativa and its close relatives, having a head of green and/or purple leaves.
  • (uncountable) The leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable; as a dish often mixed with other ingredients, dressing etc.
    • I’ll have a ham sandwich with lettuce and tomato.
  • (uncountable, US, slang) United States paper currency; dollars.

    • Synonyms

    * (US paper currency) cabbage, greenbacks

    Derived terms

    * lettuce leaf * lettuce opium * lettucey, lettucy * sea lettuce

    See also

    * cabbage

    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

    References