A cruciferous plant with a thick bulbous edible yellow root.
Cultivar of cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. Gongylodes) that is grown for its swollen, edible stem rather than its leaves.
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Examples for "swede "
Examples for "swede "
1 But man was gone and it was the day of the swede .
2 Yes, man was gone, and it was the day of the swede .
3 This is the rutabaga, or swede , the turnip-cabbage of our northern districts.
4 Basic cooking Unlike most vegetables the colour of swede deepens with cooking.
5 The swede nodded to his companions: the years of freedom had come.
1 This is the rutabaga , or swede, the turnip-cabbage of our northern districts.
2 Sow spinach, rutabaga turnip, bush beans and peas for last fall crop.
3 In the US, and in France too, they are rutabaga .
4 Interestingly, rutabaga adenylyl cyclase expression within intrinsic mushroom body neurons is necessary for robust ethanol self-administration.
5 At last he drove the pen viciously to its hilt in the rutabaga , and almost shouted:-
1 For mere milk-dairies, it is not quite so valuable, probably, as the Swedish turnip .
2 Wilson with the Swedish turnip , Brassica campestris ruta baga.
3 In fact, another name for the rutabaga is Swedish turnip , or "Swede" for short.
4 With respect to the origin of the Swedish turnip , see Darwin, 'Animals and Plants under Domestication,' 2nd edit.
5 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 .
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Translations for turnip cabbage