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Rutabaga

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Noun

1. rutabaga, swede, swedish turnip, yellow turnip

the large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food

2. brassica napus napobrassica, rutabaga, rutabaga plant, swede, swedish turnip, turnip cabbage

a cruciferous plant with a thick bulbous edible yellow root

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Rutabaga

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noun
1. US and Canadian
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)
2. 
the root of this plant

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Rutabaga

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noun
1. 
a turniplike plant (Brassica napobrassica) of the crucifer family, with a large, yellow root
2. 
this edible root

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Rutabaga

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n.
1. A plant (Brassica napus var. napobrassica) in the mustard family, having a thick bulbous yellowish root used as a vegetable.
2. The edible root of this plant. In both senses also called swede, Swedish turnip.

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