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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Shaped like a turnip: napiform roots.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Having the shape of a turnip—that is, enlarged in the upper part and slender below: as, a napiform root.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. botany Shaped like a turnip; spherical at the top, but with a tapering bottom.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. (Bot.) Turnip-shaped; large and round in the upper part, and very slender below.

Etymologies

  1. From Latin nāpus ("turnip") + -form (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin nāpus, turnip + -form. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. turnip-shaped

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  1. turnip-tailed
  1. napiform
  1. acormus
  1. turnip-shaped

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  • whichbe This looks like somebody curled up on a hammock. Dec 2, 2008

  • reesetee Round at the top and tapering sharply below; turnip-shaped, as a root. Jan 14, 2008

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