Turnip vs Potatoey - What's the difference?
turnip | potatoey |
As a noun turnip is the white root of a yellow-flowered plant, brassica rapa , grown as a vegetable and as fodder for cattle. As an adjective potatoey is like potatoes in texture, flavour, etc.
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
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potatoey English
Adjective
( en adjective)
Like potatoes in texture, flavour, etc. |
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