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Swedish turnips

Swedish turnips is the plural of Swedish turnip.

Meaning of Swedish turnip

Noun

Swedish turnip (plural Swedish turnips)

  1. swede; rutabaga (Brassica napus var. napobrassica)
    • Heavens! what attention he bestowed on the growth of his grey pease! how eloquent he could be on the merits of Swedish turnips! and a new drill, or a patent thrashing machine, deprived him of sleep for a week.1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 106

Questions about Swedish turnips

What is Swedish turnips the plural of?
Swedish turnips is the plural of Swedish turnip.

Words near Swedish turnips in the dictionary

  1. Swedish Sign Language
  2. Swedish sumac
  3. Swedish torch
  4. Swedish torches
  5. Swedish turnip
  6. Swedish turnips
  7. Swedish Vallhund
  8. Swedish Vallhunds
  9. Swedish wrench
  10. Swedish wrenches
  11. Swedishes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Swedish turnips (page history and authors); Swedish turnip (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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