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turnip

The white root of a yellow-flowered plant, , grown as a vegetable and as fodder for cattle.

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#1·Apr 27, 2026

The white root of a yellow-flowered plant, , grown as a vegetable and as fodder for cattle.

The ancient Roman gastronomists considered the turnip, when prepared in the following manner, a dish fit for epicures: "After boiling, extract the water from them, and season with cummin, rue, or benzoin, pounded in a mortar; afterward a…
Origin: From , probably from turn + , from , from . The component turn may be due to the round shape of the plant as though turned on a lathe, or because it must be turned and twisted to be harvested. Cognate to neep. See also parsnip. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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  • “No That will pull all his salts out. use a beat or a turnip”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “You are surprised that Turnip lied? That is ALL he does!”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Always easier to make stuff up than to actually use real life facts, until the fact-checkers come along and make him look like a right turnip...”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Dear lord, you barely sentient turnip! Your thoughts are like a shuffled deck of blank cards—completely pointless.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “I guarantee that guy would have still voted for Turnip over Bernie if they had both been on the ballot. That's the fatal flaw in the Bernie Bro arguments.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
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#2·Apr 27, 2026

(Hong Kong) The white root of , also known as a daikon.

The turnip is one of the lordliest vegetables in the world; its broth is practically a soup in itself.
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#3·Apr 27, 2026

(Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, Cornwall, Atlantic Canada, Manitoba) The yellow root of a related plant, the swede or .

In general, beets, carrots, and turnips are all of aphrodisiac value in erotic dietary.
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  • “Look, you barely sentient turnip! Imagine being this wrong, and yet here you are, doing it effortlessly.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Turnip's Operation Freedumb is a bust. Whomst amongst youmst called it?”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Not again, you barely sentient turnip! Do you wake up every morning and decide to be this disappointing, or does it just happen naturally?”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “For a minute, I thought you'd got a turnip of your very own; Baldrick would be jealous.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “I mean, “defeating Democrats at all costs” was the excuse many of them told themselves to justify voting for Turnip back in 2016.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
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