white turnip

How to use white turnip in a sentence

• They look like an old-fashioned white turnip, and they float under the water, and when a ship strikes one it blows up.

  Seeing Things at Night | Heywood Broun

• And the white-turnip, which is at best but a poor thing, and often half putrid, makes miserable butter.

  Cottage Economy | William Cobbett

• As a cure, Dr. Handel recommends the juice of the white turnip to be given to drink instead of water.

  The Natural History of Cage Birds | J. M. Bechstein

• "Don't forget how good the white turnip is for chilblains," said the Scotchman.

  The Old Market-Cart | Mrs. F. B. Smith

• From the vegetable kingdom they obtain many roots; the pomme blanche, or white turnip, is very common in their prairies.

  Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, v. 23 | Various