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Turnip vs Neep - What's the difference?

turnip | neep |

Neep is a descendant of turnip.



As nouns the difference between turnip and neep

is that turnip is the white root of a yellow-flowered plant, Brassica rapa, grown as a vegetable and as fodder for cattle while neep is the swede (rutabaga), called "turnip" in Scotland.

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

    neep

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chiefly, Scotland) The swede (rutabaga), called "turnip" in Scotland.
  • *1934 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Grey Granite'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 494:
  • *:Poor Mr Piddle with his long think neck and his long thin head, as bald as a neep and something the shape […].

    • Anagrams

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