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Neep vs Neem - What's the difference?

neep | neem |

As nouns the difference between neep and neem

is that neep is (chiefly|scotland) the swede (rutabaga), called "turnip" in scotland while neem is a large, mostly evergreen tree from india, , whose seeds yield the insecticide azadirachtin.

neep

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (chiefly, Scotland) The swede (rutabaga), called "turnip" in Scotland.
  • *1934 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Grey Granite'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 494:
  • *:Poor Mr Piddle with his long think neck and his long thin head, as bald as a neep and something the shape […].

    • Anagrams

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    neem

    English

    (wikipedia neem)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a large, mostly evergreen tree from India, , whose seeds yield the insecticide azadirachtin
  • * 2008 , Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger , Atlantic 2009, p. 108:
    • He was standing at the gate, rubbing his teeth with a twig broken from a neem tree – which is what many poor people in my country do, Mr Premier, when they want to clean their teeth.

    Synonyms

    * margosa *

    Derived terms

    * neem cake