turnip
Example Sentences
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Boonthom had noticed her packing the harvested fruit — a turnip variety Yo describes as a “cross between a potato and an apple” — and had been love-struck.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2023
So what took the turnip off "good men's tables"? Historians Frances Dolan and Mark Overton point to animal feed and crop rotations.
From Salon • Mar. 30, 2023
Mom’s Kitchen, located in the once-safe neighborhood where Norris grew up, is a casual place serving baked chicken, turnip greens and candied sweet potatoes.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 26, 2023
It has now been discovered that this contained an ironmongers, which sold the working classes everything from spades and shovels to turnip cutters and candles.
From BBC • Sep. 2, 2022
It simply meant that the tulips were striped in different colors, rather like Mr. Blake’s tyger, although one could no more mistake a tulip for a tyger than a tyger for a turnip.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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