As nouns the difference between turnip and leek
is that turnip is the white root of a yellow-flowered plant, Brassica rapa, grown as a vegetable and as fodder for cattle while leek is the vegetable Allium ampeloprasum, of the lily family, having edible leaves and an onion-like bulb but with a milder flavour than the onion.
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
leek
English
Noun
(
en noun)
The vegetable Allium ampeloprasum , of the lily family, having edible leaves and an onion-like bulb but with a milder flavour than the onion.
Any of several species of Allium , broadly resembling the domesticated plant in appearance in the wild.
Synonyms
* scallion (''US, Scotland ), garden leek, broadleaf wild leek
Derived terms
* (broadleaf wild leek) - Allium ampeloprasum ,
* (narrowleaf wild leek) -
* (garden leek) - Allium ampeloprasum
* (sand leek) -
* (threecorner leek) -
* houseleek - Sempervivum
See also
* garlic
Anagrams
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