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rutabaga
[ roo-tuh-bey-guh, roo-tuh-bey- ]
noun
- a brassicaceous plant, Brassica napobrassica, having a yellow- or white-fleshed, edible tuber.
- the edible tuber, a variety of turnip.
rutabaga
/ ˌruːtəˈbeɪɡə /
noun
- a Eurasian plant, Brassica napus (or B. napobrassica ), cultivated for its bulbous edible root, which is used as a vegetable and as cattle fodder: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- the root of this plant
Word History and Origins
Origin of rutabaga1
Word History and Origins
Origin of rutabaga1
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Example Sentences
Put it in the pot, along with the chopped potatoes and rutabaga, and add broth or water until the duck is submerged.
In other trials, zookeepers offered the elephant small cubes of rutabaga.
In other trials, the elephant was offered small cubes of rutabaga of various sizes.
If you’ve never cooked with rutabagas before, this is a lovely introduction.
Goodbye greens, goodbye peaches, and hello white: potatoes, parsnips, rutabaga.
We may get bitten by a snapping bean or routed by a rutabaga or infected by a parsnip.
Early purple-top strap-leaf turnip, early cabbage, lettuce, rutabaga turnips.
He still calls the beet a beet-root and the rutabaga a mangel-wurzel.
The Rutabaga is a productive variety, and possesses a good deal of nutriment.
He showed up strong, as I knew he would, after he was rigged up in the ready-made rutabaga regalia.
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