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noun
The fleshy yellow root of a variety of rapeseed, Brassica napus var. napobrassica, resembling a large turnip, grown as a vegetable.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK
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noun
The plant from which this is obtained.
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noun
The turnip.
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Usage: Ireland, Northern-England, Scotland
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noun
The head.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, slang
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noun
A person of a North Germanic ethnic group native to Scandinavia, comprising the ethnic majority of Sweden.
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noun
A member of an ancient North Germanic tribe that inhabited central Sweden.
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Usage: historical
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verb
To produce a low-budget remake of a film without the use of professional actors or filming techniques.
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noun
the large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: rutabaga, swedish turnip, yellow turnip
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Broader terms: turnip
noun
a native or inhabitant of Sweden
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noun
a cruciferous plant with a thick bulbous edible yellow root
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: rutabaga, turnip cabbage, Swedish turnip, rutabaga plant, Brassica napus napobrassica
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Broader terms: turnip plant
History
From the earlier term Swedish turnip, because the Swedes introduced the plant to the English in the 1700s.
From Middle Low German Swêde, from a Germanic word akin to Old Norse Svíþjóð, Old English Swēoþēod (“Sweden”, literally “Swede nation”), itself from Swēo (“Swede”), from Proto-Germanic *swihô (“Swede”). Cognate with Dutch Zweed, German Schwede. Doublet of suede.
Coined by Michel Gondry in the film Be Kind Rewind, from the claim that films produced in this way were imported from Sweden.
Across languages
113 source translations are retained for this English entry.
