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Turnip vs Maconochie - What's the difference?

turnip | maconochie |

As a noun turnip

is the white root of a yellow-flowered plant, brassica rapa , grown as a vegetable and as fodder for cattle.

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

    maconochie

    English

    (wikipedia Maconochie)

    Noun

    (-)
  • A tinned stew of sliced turnips and carrots, a widely-used food ration for British soldiers in front-line trenches during World War I.
  • *1928 , (Siegfried Sassoon), Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man , Penguin 2013, p. 262:
  • *:Dottrell said the toasted cheese wasn't too bad, and ‘There's worse things in the world than half-warmed Maconochie ,’ he remarked.
  • *1975 , (Paul Fussell), The Great War and Modern Memory , OUP 2013, p. 53:
  • *:The troops seemed to like the Maconochie best, but the Germans favored the British corned beef, seldom returning from a raid on the British lines without taking back as much as they could carry.