As nouns the difference between turnip and clapshot
is that turnip is the white root of a yellow-flowered plant, brassica rapa , grown as a vegetable and as fodder for cattle while clapshot is a traditional scottish dish comprised of boiled potatoes and boiled swede (or scottish turnip) mashed together with chives often prepared on burns night.
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
clapshot
English
Noun
(-)
A traditional Scottish dish comprised of boiled potatoes and boiled swede (or Scottish turnip) mashed together with chives. Often prepared on Burns night.