turnip
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The winner takes home a turnip impaled on a rusty six inch nail in a block of wood as a trophy and a blue plaque.
From BBC • Dec. 2, 2025
While most dark green vegetables — especially collard greens, broccoli raab, turnip greens and kale — provide calcium, spinach and beet greens contain oxalic acid, which makes their calcium unavailable to us.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 18, 2023
We make a salad out of turnip sprouts.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2023
Historically, the word "turnip" didn't only refer to the round purple root, but root vegetables of various shapes, colors and sizes.
From Salon • Mar. 30, 2023
Two birds on a stalk of Indian turnip.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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