Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Shaped like a turnip; napiform.

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  • adjective shaped in the form of a turnip

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Examples

  • Model stills are ubiquitous; little turnip-shaped things built of copper and mounted onto a varnished plank with miniature dollhouse campfires under their boilers.

    CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

  • Model stills are ubiquitous; little turnip-shaped things built of copper and mounted onto a varnished plank with miniature dollhouse campfires under their boilers.

    CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

  • Instead of classic, copper, turnip-shaped pot stills, they devised and built the black pot submarine still, a rough, slapdash job made from a couple of sheets of galvanized metal and some poplar planking.

    CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

  • Instead of classic, copper, turnip-shaped pot stills, they devised and built the black pot submarine still, a rough, slapdash job made from a couple of sheets of galvanized metal and some poplar planking.

    CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

  • Instead of classic, copper, turnip-shaped pot stills, they devised and built the black pot submarine still, a rough, slapdash job made from a couple of sheets of galvanized metal and some poplar planking.

    CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

  • Model stills are ubiquitous; little turnip-shaped things built of copper and mounted onto a varnished plank with miniature dollhouse campfires under their boilers.

    CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

  • The jicama (Pachyrizus erosus) is a tuberous legume grown for its turnip-shaped roots, which can grow to a weight of fifty pounds, although those found in the markets average from three to five pounds.

    Jicama: a sign of changing culinary seasons in Mexico 2004

  • The jicama (Pachyrizus erosus) is a tuberous legume grown for its turnip-shaped roots, which can grow to a weight of fifty pounds, although those found in the markets average from three to five pounds.

    Jicama: a sign of changing culinary seasons in Mexico 2004

  • The jicama (Pachyrizus erosus) is a tuberous legume grown for its turnip-shaped roots, which can grow to a weight of fifty pounds, although those found in the markets average from three to five pounds.

    Jicama: a sign of changing culinary seasons in Mexico 2004

  • Tuberous roots, frequently turnip-shaped, are borne at the base of the stem, and may be solitary or several, simple or compound; normally they are about 10-15 cm in diameter.

    Chapter 38 1987

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