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  • noun Plural form of turnip.

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Examples

  • I would mix in turnips with the wheat/oats as well.

    Food Plots 2009

  • I swear a bag of turnips is smarter and more creative than Palin sycophants.

    Think Progress » Fox News: Palin’s ‘Telepalmer’ Notes Were A Clever Plot To Call Attention To Obama’s Teleprompter 2010

  • I would mix in turnips with the wheat/oats as well.

    Food Plots 2009

  • Tom Sawyer called the hogs “ingots,” and he called the turnips and stuff “julery,” and we would go to the cave and powwow over what we had done, and how many people we had killed and marked.

    The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009

  • My favorite way to eat rutabagas or turnips is a follows:

    rutabagas 2004

  • He said, We had come out from Ireland just the year before, and there was a large family of us, all young children, and all my father had been able to do was to clear the little piece of land and put in turnips, and we lived on turnips all winter.

    Canadian Empire Builders 1917

  • The meat-and-two-veg recipe is simple enough: fresh skirt steak from a local butcher, swedes which, confusingly, are called turnips in Cornwall, potatoes and a dollop of clotted cream.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • They have a new root crop at Sellanraa called turnips, sending up a colossal growth of green waving leaves out of the earth, and nothing can keep the cows away from them — the beasts break down all hedgework, and storm in, bellowing.

    The Growth of the Soil 2003

  • Tom Sawyer called the hogs “ingots,” and he called the turnips and stuff “julery,” and we would go to the cave and powwow over what we had done, and how many people we had killed and marked.

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 2003

  • And so the hunter enters the tipi and eats corn and turnips, which is what they would have at that time of year, maybe with wild greens from the trail, flavored with sage and other things like that.

    Coyote Medicine M.D. Lewis Mebl-Madrona 1997

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