Usually means: Root vegetables, often white, edible.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. turnips: Merriam-Webster
  2. turnips: Collins English Dictionary
  3. turnips: Vocabulary.com
  4. Turnips, turnips: Wordnik
  5. turnips: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. turnips: Wiktionary
  7. turnips: Dictionary.com
  8. turnips: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Turnips: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Turnips: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Food Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Turnips: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Turnips: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Turnips: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. turnips, turnips: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. turnips: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (turnip)

noun:  The white root of a yellow-flowered plant, Brassica rapa, grown as a vegetable and as fodder for cattle.
noun:  (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, Cornwall, Atlantic Canada) The yellow root of a related plant, the swede or Brassica napus.
noun:  (Hong Kong) The white root of Raphanus sativus var. longipinnatus, also known as a daikon.
noun:  (Singapore, Malaysia, by extension) The root of the yam bean, Pachyrhizus erosus; jicama.
noun:  (dated) A large, heavy pocket watch, so called because its profile resembled the vegetable.
noun:  (slang) A fool or simpleton.
verb:  (transitive) To plant with turnips.
verb:  (transitive) To feed or graze (livestock) on turnips.
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