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Swedish turnip

 
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–noun
rutabaga.
Origin:
1800–10; so called because introduced into Great Britain from Sweden
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ru⋅ta⋅ba⋅ga

  [roo-tuh-bey-guh, roo-tuh-bey-]
–noun
1. a brassicaceous plant, Brassica napobrassica, having a yellow- or white-fleshed, edible tuber.
2. the edible tuber, a variety of turnip.
Also called Swedish turnip.

Origin:
1790–1800, Americanism; < Sw (dial.) rotabagge
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ru·ta·ba·ga   (rōō'tə-bā'gə, rŏŏt'ə-, rōō'tə-bā'gə, rŏŏt'ə-)   
n.   In both senses also called swede, Swedish turnip.

  1. A European plant (Brassica napus var. napobrassica) having a thick bulbous root used as food and as livestock feed.

  2. The edible root of this plant.


[Swedish dialectal rotabagge : rot, root (from Old Norse rōt; see wrād- in Indo-European roots) + bagge, bag (from Old Norse baggi).]
Swedish turnip  
n.  See rutabaga.
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Word Origin & History

rutabaga 
1799, from Swed. dial. (W. Götland) rotabagge, from rot "root" + bagge "bag." Slang meaning "dollar" is from 1940s.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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