rutabaga

[ roo-tuh-bey-guh, roo-tuh-bey- ]

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noun

a brassicaceous plant, Brassica napobrassica, having a yellow- or white-fleshed, edible tuber.
the edible tuber, a variety of turnip.

rutabaga

/ ˌruːtəˈbeɪɡə /

a Eurasian plant, Brassica napus (or B. napobrassica ), cultivated for its bulbous edible root, which is used as a vegetable and as cattle fodder: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
the root of this plant

1790–1800, Americanism; < Swedish (dial.) rotabagge

C18: from Swedish dialect rotabagge , literally: root bag

Goodbye greens, goodbye peaches, and hello white: potatoes, parsnips, rutabaga.

We may get bitten by a snapping bean or routed by a rutabaga or infected by a parsnip.

Early purple-top strap-leaf turnip, early cabbage, lettuce, rutabaga turnips.

He still calls the beet a beet-root and the rutabaga a mangel-wurzel.

The Rutabaga is a productive variety, and possesses a good deal of nutriment.

He showed up strong, as I knew he would, after he was rigged up in the ready-made rutabaga regalia.

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