prairie turnip

noun

1. breadroot.

prairie turnip

noun

1. another name for breadroot

Word History and Origins

Origin of prairie turnip¹

An Americanism dating back to 1805–15

Example Sentences

In late summer, we’d harvest chokecherries and timpsula, a wild prairie turnip, and pick juniper berries off the prickly trees.

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The professors and Sitzman, Furlich and Matz followed that up with more thorough research toward defining the antioxidant and pathogen-fighting qualities of the prairie turnip.

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Pale purple coneflowers, porcupine grass, prairie turnip and other native plants, along with pollinating insects and creatures in the soil, survive in places like this.

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I have often seated myself, squatting down on a robe spread for me, to a fine joint of buffalo ribs, admirably roasted; with, perhaps, a pudding-like paste of the prairie turnip, flavoured with buffalo berries.

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These being scarce, the chief food of the settlers for all that summer through was the "Prairie turnip."

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