white turnip

American  

noun

1. the turnip, Brassica rapa.

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Example Sentences

Use the smallest ones you can find, halved or quartered, or cut medium white turnips into small wedges.

From New York Times

Try it with small white turnips, parsnips and carrots.

From Washington Post

VARIATIONS: Instead of short-grain brown rice, you could substitute long-grain brown rice, red rice or quinoa; you could use radishes, sweet white turnips, or slivered asparagus in addition to or instead of the carrots.

From Seattle Times

Bloom, ever curious and empathetic, imagines what a corpse must taste like: “They wouldn’t care about the smell of it. Saltwhite crumbling mush of corpse: smell, taste like raw white turnips.”

From The New Yorker

Early versions might include green garlic and leeks, sweet white turnips and carrots, radish and turnip greens, asparagus and parsley.

From Washington Post