Turnip vs Napiform - What's the difference?
turnip | napiform |
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 .
(botany) Shaped like a turnip; spherical at the top, but with a tapering bottom.
* 2007 K. Kubitzki (ed.), The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants , volume IX, page 265
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 napiform is
shaped like a turnip; spherical at the top, but with a tapering bottom.turnip
English
Noun
(en noun)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 greensReferences
napiform
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The primary root is transformed into an perennating storage root, which is tuberous or napiform and then often branched