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Turnip (disambiguation)
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The turnip is a root vegetable.
Look up turnip in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Turnip or The Turnip may also refer to:
Other vegetables
The term "turnip" usually refers to the white turnip (Brassica rapa subsp. rapa). In some English-speaking countries it can refer to:
- Rutabaga (yellow turnip, neep, swede, Brassica napus, or B. napobrassica)
- Pachyrhizus erosus (Mexican turnip, yam bean, sweet turnip, jícama)
- Daikon (white radish, mooli; Raphanus sativus var. longipinnatus)
- Kohlrabi (German turnip or turnip cabbage; Brassica oleracea)
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Other plants
- Jack-in-the-pulpit (bog onion, Indian turnip, or Arisaema triphyllum) an unpalatable to toxic wild root of North America
- Prairie turnip (timpsila, breadroot, wild turnip, or Pediomelum esculentum) a traditional wild root staple of the US plains
Arts and entertainment
- "The Turnip", a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm
- Turnip Prize, a spoof prize recognising deliberately bad modern art
- Mr. Turnip, a character in the 1950s British television programme Whirligig
- Turnip (Chrono Cross), a playable character in the video game Chrono Cross
Nickname
- Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend (1674–1738), English politician nicknamed "Turnip" Townshend for promoting the cultivation of turnips
See also
- Turnip Rock, Michigan, United States, a small geological formation
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