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• Pork chops boiled with turnip greens make a mighty fine meal.From the entry mighty
• Look sharp, and try not to seem like you just fell off the turnip truck.From the entry fall off the turnip truck
• A sharp drop in demand forced the farmer to plow under half his turnips.From the entry plow under
• He's got a turnip for a brain.From the entry for
• He was a cloddish man, like he'd just fallen off the turnip wagon and hadn't quite woken up yet from his long trip from the country.From the entry cloddish
• I look over and see that the ingredients for this would be turnip, rhubarb and cabbage.2012, Pauline McLynn, Jenny Q, Stitched Up. From the entry yumtastic
• Turnip tops appear in many cuisines for good reason: they fill a very hungry gap.2010 October 25, Alys Fowler, “Alys Fowler: Turnip tops”, in The Guardian. From the entry turnip tops
• Shaggy asked him, ' 'Ow dew yew a reckon on your turnips, Fred?'2009, Brendan Behan, Borstal Boy, page 264. From the entry reckon
• Kugel made with shredded turnips is one of those old Sabbath dishes.1999, William Woys Weaver, “Medieval Recipes in the Polish Style”, in Maria Dembińska, translated by Magdalena Thomas, edited by William…. From the entry kugel
• Then she said, "Like, what turnip truck did you just fall off of?1991, Darcy Jahns, Duanne Jahns, How I Survived My Summer Vacation, Richmond Hill, O.N.: Scholastic Canada, →ISBN, page 41. From the entry zod
• You've got these Swedes in your office—that was a turnip for the books.1974, Gordon Williams, Big Morning Blues, London […]: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN, page 102. From the entry turnip for the book
• The edible root of the sincamas has approximately the same shape as does the turnip.1946, United States. War Department, Army Recipes, page 379. From the entry sincamas
• We did two small baby bathtubfuls of potatoes, and usually carrots or turnips besides.1916, New-Church Messenger, page 275. From the entry bathtubful
• Paul went joyfully, and spent the afternoon helping to hoe or to single turnips with his friend.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 7, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC. From the entry single
• (Brunoise Soup). — A clear gravy soup with finely minced carrots, turnips, leeks, and onions.1908, Charles Herman Senn, The Menu Book, page 70. From the entry brunoise
• In a past life in Fuzhou, it represented some reality other than the one of daily congee and pickled turnips, cabbage and boiled rip soup.2022, Ling Ma, “Peking Duck”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN. From the entry congee
• Slaves boiled pokeweed and often mixed it with turnip greens because it was thought that the two vegetables enhanced each other's flavor.2009, Herbert C. Covey, Dwight Eisnach, What the Slaves Ate, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 87. From the entry pokeweed
• One of the first phytochemicals to receive media attention was sulforaphane, which is present in broccoli, cauliflower, brussel sprouts, turnips and kale.1999, Alan Bryson, Healing Mind, Body & Soul: Healing The Mind And Soul, published 2000, page 100. From the entry sulforaphane
• To serve four: Peel, cut into quarters and slice very thin two or three good size yellow turnips, making about two cupfuls.1973 January 24, Poppy Cannon, “Exotic Dishes With Plain Food”, in The Index-Journal, 54th year, number 302, Greenwood, S.C., page 22. From the entry vegetably
• Earliest sown or planted — round beet, peas, forcing carrot, lettuce, radish, early cabbage, peppergrass, mustard, spinach, kohlrabi, turnip, scallion, early potato, fetticus.1945, Maurice Grenville Kains, Five acres and independence: a practical guide to the selection and management of the small farm. From the entry fetticus
• He was so hospitable that I almost stayed to lunch as they were to have turnip greens juicened with salt pork, of the fat variety.1927, Oil and Gas Journal, volume 26, page 158. From the entry juicen
• In this case, it is an exquisite arrangement of buttery-thin turnip slices, glazed and sealed together in an overlapping pattern like the surface of a fine apple tart.2006, John Peterson, “Radishes and Young Turnips”, in Farmer John's Cookbook: The Real Dirt on Vegetables, Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith…. From the entry galette
• At the end of his speech and knowing what the Kriegies’ diet had been, he turned to the cooks and said “OK, start serving the kartoffels and turnips.”2003, Trailblazer, volumes 61–63, 70th Infantry Division Association, page 10. From the entry kartoffel
• Finally, the nearby Nice Restaurant offers dim sum delicacies ($1.95–$3.95)—pan-fried turnip cakes, shrimp-stuffed eggplant, silver-needle noodles—that have been pleasing New Yorkers since the Year of the Ox.2002 February 11, Emily Gitter, Ben Kaplan, “Brother, Can You Spare a Cosmo?”, in New York, volume 35, New York, N.Y.: New York Media…. From the entry silver-needle noodle
• Occasionally there is a hiatus; for instance, our sweet potatoes, turnips and cabbages arrived late this morning but "accidents will happen in the best regulated families.1995, Louis P. Masur, The Real War Will Never Get in the Books: Selections from Writers During the Civil War, pages 88–89. From the entry accidents will happen in the best regulated families
• With each goose she placed a big brown bastable cake, and eventually everything, including my father's potatoes and turnips, was stored in the cart behind the jennet.1994, Alice Taylor, “Bringing the Christmas”, in The Night Before Christmas, Dingle, County Kerry: Brandon, →ISBN; republished New York…. From the entry bastable cake
• Not impossibly, with 1 or 2 stripper cows, 1 pike of upland hay and requisite farming implements, e. g., an end-to-end churn, a turnip pulper etc.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 17: Ithaca]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part III [Nostos], page 668. From the entry e.g.
• The vegetables, which are often difficult for the duckman to obtain, the farmer sorts out from his potatoes turnips, beets, cabbages, etc., and places but little value upon them.1906, Reliable Poultry Journal Publishing Company, Artificial Incubating and Brooding. From the entry duckman
• Many foods that seem exotic for New England are turning up in small amounts at more and more farms: kohlrabi, hakurei turnips, okra, edamame, Jerusalem artichokes, ground cherries and quince.2009 August 30, Jan Ellen Spiegel, “The Farmers Are Local, the Products Exotic”, in New York Times. From the entry hakurei

Meaning of turnip

1. noun The white root of a yellow-flowered plant, Brassica rapa, grown as a vegetable and as fodder for cattle.
2. noun The yellow root of a related plant, the swede or Brassica napus.
3. noun The white root of Raphanus sativus var. longipinnatus, also known as a daikon.

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How do you use turnip in a sentence?

Turnip is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Pork chops boiled with turnip greens make a mighty fine meal.”

What is a short sentence with turnip?

“"Dost thou not believe, thou twittering turnip?"”

What does turnip mean?

Turnip means the white root of a yellow-flowered plant, Brassica rapa, grown as a vegetable and as fodder for cattle.