Word of the Day:
rutabaga
What It Means
The swede, or Swedish turnip; the European plant Brassica napus var. napobrassica
The edible root of this plant
Rutabaga in Context
“They were both too hungry to wait for the yams and rutabagas to bake, so tonight they would have the frozen White Castle minicheeseburgers that Mr. Van Buren had won a year's supply of just before he passed away.”
Did You Know?
First attested in 1799, borrowed from Swedish rotabagge, a dialectal word from Västergötland, from rot (“root”) + bagge (“lump, bunch”).
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