Meanings of swedish turnip in English

As spring approached, Swedish turnips, when cheap, were substituted for yellow turnips.

For mere milk-dairies, it is not quite so valuable, probably, as the Swedish turnip.

The only vegetables, however, were some small Swedish turnips, which we got by favour.

Wilson with the Swedish turnip, Brassica campestris ruta baga.

In fact, another name for the rutabaga is Swedish turnip, or "Swede" for short.

With respect to the origin of the Swedish turnip, see Darwin, 'Animals and Plants under Domestication,' 2nd edit.

Root-Crops.-Experimentsupon root-crops-chiefly white turnips, Swedish turnips (swedes) and mangels-have resulted in the establishment of the following conclusions.

The seed of ruta-baga, or Swedish turnips, should be planted earliest-fromthe twentieth of June to the tenth of July in our latitude.

Or rutabaga if you're American, being a corruption of the Swedish name and part of the reason some people call it a Swedish turnip.