Usually means: Root vegetable, often white, edible.
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  1. turnip: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. turnip: Merriam-Webster
  3. turnip: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. turnip: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. turnip: Collins English Dictionary
  6. turnip: Vocabulary.com
  7. Turnip, turnip: Wordnik
  8. turnip: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Turnip: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. turnip: Wiktionary
  11. turnip: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. turnip: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. turnip: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. turnip: Dictionary.com
  15. turnip: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. turnip: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. The Turnip (fairy tale), The Turnip, Turnip (Brassica rapa), Turnip (brassica rapa), Turnip (terminology), Turnip: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Turnip: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. turnip: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. turnip: Rhymezone
  21. turnip: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. turnip: FreeDictionary.org
  23. turnip: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. turnip: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. turnip: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Congo Cookbook (No longer online)
  2. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Turnip (brassica rapa), turnip: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Turnip (brassica rapa), turnip: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. TURNIP: Acronym Finder
  2. turnip: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Turnip: Botanical Name listing of Plants
  2. Turnip: HYPP Zoology

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. turnip: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. turnip: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. turnip: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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